Ahmedabad: Gujarat on Saturday reported its highest single-day spike of 1,515 new coronavirus positivecases since March, taking the total count of infections to 1,95,917, the state health department said.The state had earlier recorded its highest single-day rise of 1,442 cases on September 25.
The tally of cases decreased gradually since then, falling below 900, before going up again.Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death toll rose by nine to 3,846 during the day, the department said.At the same time, a total of 1,271 patients were discharged, taking the count of recoveries in the state to 1,78,786, the department said in a release.With the fresh surge in cases, the state's COVID-19 recovery rate has come down to 91.26 per cent.A total of 70,388.