5 new cases in Nagpur, 3 each in Amravati and Yavatmal

TNN | Updated: May 1, 2020, 22:00 IST

Nagpur Municipal Corporation staff seal a bylane near Ganjakhet Chowk in Pachpaoli in Nagpur on Thursday. Pic: Ranjit Deshmukh

Nagpur Municipal Corporation staff seal a bylane near Ganjakhet Chowk in Pachpaoli in Nagpur on Thursday. Pic:...Read More

Nagpur: Nagpur, Yavatmal, and Amravati continued to record new positive cases of Covid-19 on Friday. In Vidarbha, a total of 11 new cases were reported by 7pm on Friday. This includes 5 from Nagpur and 3 each from Yavatmal and Amravati.
With this, the total number of Covid-19 cases in Vidarbha touched 331 with 12 deaths. 84 patients have recovered and been discharged. While Nagpur and Yavatmal are in the Red Zone, Amravati is the Orange Cone as per the Covid-19 tracking website of the central government.
On Friday, the AIIMS laboratory here tested 74 samples out of which seven tested positive — 3 from Yavatmal and 4 from Nagpur. The fifth is a woman from Warud tehsil in Amravati who is admitted at the GMCH in Nagpur.
The woman is a 50-year-old homemaker. “She was admitted to a private hospital in Warud three days ago for cough, cold and fever. However, doctors referred her to Nagpur where she tested positive,” said an official in Amravati.
The Nagpur administration relayed the information to Warud tehsil officials immediately following which doctors and staff of the hospital, and close contacts of the patient were institutionally quarantined. The official said that the roads leading to her house have been sealed and the locality is being disinfected.
“The private hospital too has been sealed and is being sanitized,” he added.
GMCH doctors said that her condition is currently stable but “she has a history of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI)”.
With three new positive patients detected today, the number of total cases in Yavatmal is now 91. Ten out of these have already been discharged.
Amravati recorded new cases from three different localities on Friday. This includes a 10-year-old boy from Nalsabpura locality too.
An official release said that the other two positive cases are a 22-year-old youth from Kata Sufiya Nagar locality on Walgaon Road and a 26-year-old woman from Kholapuri Gate locality.
With this, the corona count of Amravati has gone up to 43, including seven deaths and four recovered persons. There are now 32 active positive cases under treatment at the Covid hospital in Amravati.
The health administration today received 25 swab reports of which 22 tested negative and three positive. With today's cases, the total number of positive cases from Kholapuri Gate area has gone up to nine, Nalsabpura to four and Yusuf Nagar to two, including one death.
Meanwhile, a 54-year-old woman of Habib Nagar No.2 locality died on Friday at the non-Covid ward of the Amravati Super Speciality Hospital. “She was brought to the hospital on Thursday with cough and fever. Because she died, swab has not been taken as per government guidelines,” said an official.
However, six persons including her husband, sons and those present at the burial have been institutionally quarantined and “their swabs taken for testing”, according to a release.