Gujarat reported 783 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day spike, taking the count to 38,419, while the death toll inched towards the 2,000-mark, the state health department said.
The state reported the death of 16 more
coronavirus patients, most of them in Ahmedabad and Surat, taking the total fatalities to 1,995, it said.
Also, 569 more patients were discharged from hospitals, pushing up the number of recovered cases in the state to 27,313, the health department said.