With new cases in Nagpur, Akola & Amravati, Vid surpasses 400 mark

Chaitanya Deshpande & Mazhar Ali | TNN | May 5, 2020, 04:25 IST

Nagpur: Except Yavatmal, all red zone districts in Vidarbha recorded new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday, taking the total number of cases in region to 404. Nagpur and Akola recorded nine cases each, while Amravati recorded 5 new cases.
In Washim, swab samples of a UP-based truck cleaner, who had died on May 2 due to acute respiratory illness, tested positive on Monday. But technically, Washim retained its Covid-free tag as new patient is already dead and district has no active case in hospitals.
District administration has started contact tracing of the deceased. Officials and workers on a petrol pump where he had halted on May 1 are now quarantined.
Overall, 24 new cases came to fore in Vidarbha on Monday. Out of the 404 cases recorded in Vidarbha so far, 101 patients have recovered and discharged. After 19 deaths and one suicide, the region now has 283 active cases. More than 75% of these patients are asymptomatic and expected to recover in next two weeks.
Nagpur has highest 160 cases in the region. On Monday, cases were reported from Dobi Nagar, Ansar Nagar, Satranjipura and Yashodhara Nagar localities. These include a six-month old baby girl who happens to be the youngest Covid-19 patient from the city. Vidarbha’s youngest patient is a 3.5 months old baby in Buldhana.
Akola has a high doubling rate. Out of the nine cases reported in Akola on Monday, five are from Krushi Nagar locality, while one each from Kothadi Bazar, Lal Bangla, Baidpura and from Antri village of Balapur tehsil in Akola.
Officials told TOI that the patient from Antri village used to visit Akola frequently and came in contact with one of the earlier positive patients.
Akola is observing a complete lockdown from May 3. From Tuesday, shops of essential goods will remain open on odd dates and city will be completely shut on even dates.
Janata curfew in Amravati
District collector Shailesh Naval has announced janata curfew in Amravati on coming Saturday and Sunday. “With five new positive cases detected on Monday, the count has gone up to 60 in the district. It is very necessary to arrest this spread by taking stringent measures,” said Naval.
A 13-year-old boy of Kholapuri Gate locality tested positive after the administration received 54 swab reports on Monday morning. The remaining 53 tested negative. An official said that the boy is not from the contacts of previously found patients from this locality. So, his family members and contacts were put into institutional quarantine. Kholapuri Gate has now 11 cases.
In the 24 reports received in the evening, four tested positive. They included a 28-year-old youth from Habib Nagar, a new locality to report a Covid-19 case, a 30-year-old man from Shirala village in Chandur Bazar tehsil and two youths aged 22 and 25 from Hanuman Nagar locality.
Yavatmal women who delivered on Saturday Sunday test negative
The two women who delivered babies on Saturday and Sunday in the isolation ward have tested negative. Their newborns are also free from Covid-19. Both of them were shifted to the maternity ward where they are stable. They will be discharged probably on Tuesday, hospital sources said.
A patient from the containment area, who is due for delivery, was brought to the gynaecology ward. Since her placenta is intact, she will have a normal delivery shortly, said a source. There are few more women from the containment areas who are due for delivery and they are under medical team’s observation.
On Monday, the district administration has received 42 test reports of whom 37 tested negative. The remaining five who tested positive are all contacts of earlier positive patients. Four of them tested positive the second time. On Sunday, a patient tested positive in the fourth consecutive test during his 30 days stay in the isolation ward since April 10.
On Monday, there were 81 positive patients in the isolation wards. Only three reports are now awaited.
2 contacts of Chandrapur patient test negative
The administration is awaiting with crossed fingers the results of Covid-19 samples of the family members and neighbours of the lone positive patient from Chandrapur. Civil surgeon Dr ND Rathod claimed that out of the seven samples taken from the contacts of the patient, two were found negative. Five more test reports including three of family members are awaited.