With 2 deaths, 74 new cases, Vid surpasses 2,000 mark

Nagpur: Total confirmed Covid-19 cases in Vidarbha surpassed the 2,000 mark on Thursday and settled at 2,039, with 74 cases reported from eight of the 11 districts.
Two patients — a 62-yr-old woman from Satna (MP) and a 65-yr-old man from Amravati — died in Nagpur on Thursday. Both were referred to GMCH from the respective towns due to their critical condition. Being outstation patients and showing symptoms, their Covid-19 test was conducted and both tested positive yesterday. Both had comorbidities and died during treatment. Vidarbha has reported 73 deaths till now. Out of these, 30 have been reported in last 14 days.
Akola continued to report high number of cases. Total 45 people — 27 men and 19 women — from 11 localities of Akola tested positive on Thursday taking the total number to 712. Akola recorded its first case on April 7 and 700th on June 4 — within 60 days. The last 500 cases in Akola came in just 10 days — from May 14 to June 4. Akola also has the highest number of deaths in Vidarbha, 34 out of 73.
In Amravati, a 32-year-old resident of Farshi Stop locality tested positive in a private lab in Nagpur. Officials said the person has been shifted to Amravati on his request and admitted to ‘Best Hospital’, a private Covid hospital recognized by the government. With this, Amravati has 258 cases. On Thursday, 20 patients were discharged from Covid hospital. With recoveries going up, Amravati has only 76 active patients in isolation ward.
In Chandrapur, two more patients were detected on Thursday taking the total to 26. Two new patients belong to Mul and Bhandrawati towns. A 30-year-old had arrived at Nagpur from Gurgaon in Haryana by plane on May 25. He had travelled in a personal vehicle to Mul and was in home quarantine. His samples were collected on Wednesday and tested positive. Administration has now gathered swab samples of six other family members.
In another case, a person working at Bhadrawati was found Covid positive on Thursday. He is native of Hyderabad and had arrived here on June 1. He was examined and put in home quarantine before he tested positive.
Both the new patients have been shifted to isolation ward in the Covid hospital. All 26 positive patient, save one, have either travel history or are contact of positive patients. Health administration has relived and discharged 22 patients and only four active patients are now left in the district.
Yavatmal has recorded four more patients, three from Mahagaon and one from Nagapur of Umarkhed. The three are youths of 28, 33 and 36 years, who are contacts of a deceased person from village Mudhana of Mahagaon. The fourth patient is a minor girl of 15 years, relative of the deceased woman from Nagapur of Umarkhed.
Five positive patients were also discharged on Thursday. Thus, total active cases in Yavatmal are now 41.
Patients were discharged from Wardha for the second consecutive day, and no new patients were reported for the fifth day in a row. Four more Covid-19 patients were discharged from Kasturba Hospital, Sewagram and AVBRH, Sawangi on Thursday. All four had returned from Mumbai. They were told to stay in home quarantine for seven days. Now only three patients remain in the district, while one patient is in treatment at Secunderabad.
Gadchiroli, Washim and Buldhana also recorded new cases on Thursday. The only relief was that all of them were from institutional quarantine facilities, so the chances of infection are negligible. Vidarbha’s recovery rate continued to be above 65% for last eight days. The region now has 626 active cases in hospitals, which accounts for nearly 30% of total cases.