Active testing behind Ahmedabad's high COVID-19 numbers: Nehra

The number of COVID-19 cases

reached 1,002 in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district, with the city limits accounting for 978, the surge of numbers being attributed by civic commissioner Vijay Nehra on Sunday to "pro-active intensive surveillance and aggressive testing".

The number of COVID-19 cases within Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is now just behind bigger urban areas like Delhi and Mumbai, and it includes 29 deaths.

Around 14,000 samples have been tested in Ahmedabad municipal area, which has a population of around 80 lakh, with a majority of samples being collected and cases detected being from hotspot areas, Nehra said.

This, he said, amounted to an average of 2,490 tests per million, two-and-a-half times more than Delhi which has conducted 1,103 tests per million.

"We have adopted a strategy of pro-active intensive surveillance and aggressive testing, which will help us control the disease in coming times. There is no need to worry about rising number of cases in the ...