Akola crosses 600 cases with 24 +ves, 14 in Ngp, 8 in Amt

Nagpur: Swab samples of a 60-year-old truck driver from Nashik, who was found dead in his parked truck, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday at Yavatmal. Two more patients died in isolation ward of Akola GMCH on Sunday and Monday, taking death toll of Akola to 34 and Vidarbha to 69. With 24 patients testing positive in a day, Akola also surpassed the 600-mark. Nagpur also recorded 19 new cases. Overall, 33 patients recovered from Vidarbha and went home on Monday.
The truck driver, who came from Nashik to Ner with his loaded truck, is the third Covid-19 death in Yavatmal district. The driver was a resident of Wadala Road in Nashik, where several positive cases have been reported earlier. The administration is awaiting a nod from his family to bury him at Yavatmal.
Yavatmal also reported a new positive case on Monday from the remote village Mudhana of Mahagaon tehsil. There was panic among villagers, particularly jewellers. Six persons who had come in contact with the goldsmith who tested positive have been taken to institutional quarantine, and their swab samples collected.
In Akola, a 55-year-old woman admitted in GMCH on May 29 died late on Sunday night. She had high BP and renal failure. A 60-year-old man from Balapur village, admitted on May 24, also died on Monday. Akola also recorded 24 new positive cases – 12 men and 12 women – taking total cases in the district over 600. The administration has announced full curfew in Akola for six days, up to June 6.
Amravati saw 12 confirmed case on Monday, taking the total to 230. While ten cases were from containment zones, two were from new areas of Shikshak Colony and village Kakda in Achalpur. Of the 12, nine are male and three female.
Shikshak Colony on Gadgadeshwar Road became a new containment zone after a 47- year-old person tested positive. He runs a grocery shop at Shegaon Chowk, and came in contact with a Ratanganj positive, who has a mutton/chicken centre close to his shop. The family members of the grocer have been quarantined and his contacts are being traced.
Also, a 30-year-old Mumbai returnee quarantined at Nathe School at village Kakda in Achalpur tehsil tested positive.
Masanganj also saw three cases — males aged 75 and 55, and a female, 31 — to take its count to 35, the highest in any Amravati locality. Chetandas Bagicha in Masanganj ward also saw a father-son duo aged 61 and 30 respectively testing positive.
Budhwara in the walled city saw four neighbours of a Covid positive policeman testing positive. A boy aged 18, a man (52) and two women aged 54 and 42 took Budhwara’s tally to six. The locality has now been sealed.
In Chandrapur, a person was found positive at Rajura late on Sunday night, taking the district total to 23. However, no patient was found in Chandrapur, and one patient was discharged Monday, leaving 10 active cases.
Sources said the 27-year-old Rajura youth working at Goregaon Film City in Mumbai had arrived on May 25. He was in institutional quarantine and developed symptoms on May 30. After a positive report on Sunday he was shifted to Chandrapur GMCH.
So far 13 of 23 patients have recovered in Chandrapur. The latest to be discharged, on Monday, was a nurse of Babupeth locality who had came from Mumbai.
The first day of June saw recoveries all around, and no new cases in five of 11 Vidarbha districts. In Wardha, two patients from other districts were discharged. A migrant labour from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, and a young woman from Dhamangaon (Railway) of Amravati district were discharged in Sawangi. The man tested corona-free in 14-day test. Doctors and nurses applauded the patients, gave certificates and wished them good health.
Wardha district has not seen a new positive patient in two days. Gadchiroli, however, reported one positive patient.
Gondia and Bhandara recorded no new case, but 15 travellers from Mumbai and Pune who had tested positive between May 17 and 20 have recovered. This indicates the travellers were detected at early stage, when they had low viral load.