Gujarat's Covid-19 cases zoom past 95,000; deaths cross 3,000

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Gujarat on Sunday reported 1,272 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total count of infections to 95,155, state health departmentsaid.

Death toll crossed the 3,000-mark and rose to 3,008 with 17 patients succumbing to the infection, it said.

With 1,095 patients getting discharged in the day, the number of recoveries mounted to 76,757.

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The Covid-19 case recovery rate in the state now stands at 80.67 per cent.

A total of 69,488 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, which comes at the rate of 1,069.05 tests per day per million population, the department said in a release.

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