A 10-year-old boy in Gujarat went for his COVID-19 test in Rajkot dressed as Mahatma Gandhi, according to news agency ANI.?
The gesture, which occurred just before Gandhi Jayanti, has got praise online.??
Dressed in white clothes with round glasses, he said his aim is to make people aware of how important it is to get oneself tested.?
"My swab samples have been taken for coronavirus test. People should not be apprehensive about the test. Our country will be healthy only if we cooperate,Ħħ he told ANI.?
Gujarat has 136,004 cases and 3442 deaths. Currently, the number of active cases in the state is 16,603. This includes 1381 fresh cases on September 29.?
34.6 lakh tests have been conducted in the state. Health Department says that Gujarat's recovery rate is 85% with 115,959 recoveries. 1383 patients recovered on Tuesday.?
Ahmedabad is seeing a spike in daily cases over the last 2 weeks.?
On September 17, it reported 151 new cases and now it has touched 180. The AMC on September 28 closed all food joints on 27 different roads between 10 pm and 6 am.?
In India, the total cases have exceeded 62 lakh while almost 98,000 have died. Worldwide almost 3.4 crore are affected and over 10 lakh have died.