Surat: After a decline in Covid-19 cases in Surat city for two days, the number of cases again showed an upward trend with 1,858 new people testing positive on Tuesday taking the total number of cases to 85,108. On Monday, 1472 new cases were reported while a day before 1,690 people had tested positive. The civic body also reported deaths of 23 infected people, 13 of whom were less than 50 years of age. Athwa and Rander zones continued to report maximum number of cases in the city with 342 and 359 people testing positive in the two zones respectively. On Tuesday, 1,225 people were also discharged from hospitals while 3,873 patients are still under treatment. At New Civil Hospital, of the 1,518 beds, 1,120 were occupied and at SMIMER Hospital, 517 beds of total 941 beds were occupied.