Pune's Covid-19 tally soars past 16,000, death toll breaches 600-mark

Pune: Twelve more people succumbed to the Covid-19 infection in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Monday, pushing the total death toll in the region to 604.
Besides, 352 people tested positive for the contagion in PMR on Monday, a huge decline from 823 and 675 recorded on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. With this, the total case count in PMR has breached the 16,000-mark and has risen to 16,031.

Of the new cases, the Pune municipal limits recorded 203, Pimpri Chinchwad municipal limits reported 128, while rural and Cantonment areas together added 21.
The PMC health department said 255 patients were discharged in the last 25 hours after they were declared cured, taking the total cured tally to 7,672.
According to PMC health officials, the caseload of active patients for Covid-19 increased to 4,496 on Monday. “All these patients were being treated at various hospitals and Covid centres. About 280 of them were at critical stage and 55 among them were on ventilator,” a health official said, adding 3,220 swabs were collected for testing on Monday.
The PMR’s death tally had reached 500-mark on June 15 and took just seven days to surge beyond 600. The patients who succumbed to the infection on Monday included a 44-year-old man from Vishrantwadi, a 30-year-old man from the Dattawadi area, a 59-year-old man from Katraj, a 77-year-old man from Kondhwa, a 55-year-old man from Katraj, an 84-year-old woman from Kothrud, a 61-year-old woman and a 69-year-old woman from the Shivajinagar area.