Most Covid deaths in Gujarat has occured within 2 days of testing

AHMEDABAD: Even as Gujarat on Wednesday recorded 13 Covid deaths, taking the state’s toll to 103, data revealed that in 66% of the cases, death came to the positive patient within two days of testing.

Analysis of 71 Covid death cases recorded till April 19 – for which data of admission, testing and death is available – showed that 66%, or two-thirds of the positive cases, saw death within two days. Out of 47 who died within two days, 13 passed away the same day they tested positive, 15 died a day after and 19 succumbed two days later.

On the other hand, there were seven patients who were hospitalized for more than 10 days before they succumbed to the infection. A 69-year-old woman from Vadodara died