21-year-old diabetic girl is Vidarbha’s youngest Covid-19 victim

NAGPUR: A 21-year-old girl from Kendra (Khurd) village in Hingoli district, who was brought to Akola GMCH for treatment of type-1 diabetes, died at Akola late on Wednesday. Her swab samples taken for Covid-19 tests after death tested positive on Thursday. The girl became youngest patient to die due to Covid-19 in Vidarbha. Earlier, a 22-year-old boy from Nagpur was the youngest Covid victim.
“The girl was a diabetic since childhood. As her condition deteriorated, she was first moved to Washim for treatment and later to Akola GMCH. She died during treatment. As per protocol, her swabs were taken for testing post death which revealed that she was having Covid-19 infection too,” said Dr KP Biswas, civil surgeon of Hingoli, which technically is in Marathwada region.
Akola reported two more deaths on June 25 while Amravati and Buldhana recorded one each taking total Covid-19 death toll of Vidarbha to 141.
Apart from deaths, 71 new cases were reported from the region which took total cases in Vidarbha past 4,000-mark. Now, Vidarbha has 4,056 Covid-19 cases. It took 106 days to cross 4,000-mark. Highest 1,385 of these are from Nagpur district followed by 1,342 from Akola, 472 from Amravati and 260 from Yavatmal.
Recoveries once again brought cheers for the region. Total 168 patients recovered on Thursday which is highest in a day till now. This took total number of recovered patients to 2,982 — 18 short to 3,000-mark. Recovery rate of Vidarbha surged to 73.50% which is way ahead of Maharashtra’s 50% and India’s 57%.
In all five deaths were reported on Thursday. Three of them were from Akola. Apart from the 21-year-old girl from Hingoli, a 50-year-old man from Khamkhed in Balapur died on June 24 night. He was admitted on June 15. A 55-year-old woman from Baidpura locality — which is one of the hotspots in Akola city — died on Thursday afternoon. She was admitted since June 2. A 67-year-old woman from Malkapur, who died on June 23, tested positive on June 25 in Buldhana. This was the only case reported from Buldhana on Thursday. In Amravati, a 43-year-old man from Badnera died, which is 20th death of the district.
AKOLA: Apart from three deaths, Akola recorded 33 new cases on June 25. Total 85 patients recovered and were discharged. Now, Akola has 1,342 cases including 990 recovered and 74 dead. Number of active cases here is 278.
AMRAVATI: A Covid death and 12 new cases took the death toll to 20 and patient count of the district to 472 on Thursday. A release from civil surgeon’s office said a 48-year-old man from Almas Colony in Patelnagar area of Old City, Badnera, who tested positive on June 23, breathed his last this morning at Covid Hospital here. This is the second death in five days from Badnera, which has reported 66 cases to date.
Patelnagar in Badnera gave four cases today, all females aged 42, 36, 42 and 12 while two more women aged 32 and 29 from Noornagar in Old City and new city, respectively.
Other cases came from different localities of the city and one each from Morshi and Nandgaon Khandeshwar tehsils. A 45-year-old woman from Vichori in Morshi tehsil and a 28-year-old man from Nandgaon Khandeshwar posted the rural cases of the day, taking the rural Covid count to 41.
In city, the virus entered Janata Colony (M 42), Vrundavan Colony in Camp ( M 31), and Santoshinagar (M 40). The day also saw 16 getting discharge to take the number of recovered cases to 337. This has left 115 active cases, including 11 under treatment in Nagpur.
CHANDRAPUR: Two more Covid-19 positive cases were reported in Chandrapur on Thursday which took total number of cases here to 64. A 28-year-old youth from Kannamwar ward, who returned from Hyderabad, tested positive. A 27-year-old girl from Babupeth area, who had returned from Yavatmal and was in institutional quarantine since June 21, also tested positive. Till date, 41 patients have recovered from Chandrapur. The district has total 17 active cases.
WARDHA: A 40-year-old man, who returned from Mumbai along with his wife and daughter, to meet his relatives at Sudampuri area in city tested positive on Thursday. He had returned on June 24. As soon as he reached Wardha, his health deteriorated and it was reported to health administration. He was immediately brought to the isolation ward of the district hospital. Swab sample of this man was sent to the lab and the report came positive on Thursday afternoon. Health department has imposed restrictive measures in Sudampuri area. The victim’s wife, daughter, mother-in-law and other family members who came in contact with him have been quarantined and their samples sent for testing.
WASHIM: A 30-year-old man from Washim tested positive taking total number of cases in the district to 86 on June 25. On the other hand, six patients recovered and discharged. Now, 58 out of 86 patients have recovered from Washim and 2 have died.
GONDIA: With 14 patients recovered in a day, Gondia’s total number of recovered patient reached 100 against the total cases 104. Now, the district has only 4 active cases, all young and asymptomatic patients.
YAVATMAL: No new case was reported on Thursday. The number of active positive patients in GMCH is 72.
GADCHIROLI: One Delhi returnee who was in institutional quarantine tested positive here. Total cases in the district have reached 62. Of them, 46 have already recovered, so the number of active cases is 15.