Pune Metropolitan Region records highest single-day Covid-19 toll as 31 die

PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) recorded its single-day highest 31 coronavirus casualties on Tuesday, taking the region’s toll to 763 so far.
Besides, 739 people tested positive for the contagion in PMR on Tuesday, pushing Pune’s tally to 22,429. Among the fresh cases, 442 were recorded in Pune municipal limits, 173 in Pimpri Chinchwad municipal limits and 124 in rural and Cantonment areas.

PMC health officials said the condition of 350 patients was critical and they were being treated at various hospitals. Of these, 59 were on ventilator support, the officials said, adding that 3,949 swabs were collected and sent for testing on Tuesday. “For the last one week, over 3,000 samples are being collected and sent for testing every day,’ a civic health official said.
Among the 31 deaths, nine were recorded at the Sassoon General Hospital. These included a 70-year-old man from the Parvati area, a 69-year-old man from Yerawada, a 52-year-old man from Guruwar Peth, a 67-year-old man from Kharadi, a 60-year-old woman from the Shivajinagar area, a 48-year-old man from Mangalwar Peth, a 46-year-old man from Shukrawar Peth, a 74-year-man from Pune Camp, a 71-year-old woman from Khadki. A 55-year-old man from Haveli succumbed to the infection at Naidu hospital.
The patients who succumbed to the infection at private hospitals include a 71-year-old man from Solapur, a 61-year-old man from Khadki, a 69-year-old woman from Kondhwa, a 54-year-old man from Kondhwa, a 73-year-old man from Katraj, a 63-year-old woman from Sinhagad Road, a 58-year-old woman from Wadgaonsheri, a 75-year-old man from Nana Peth, a 59-year-old woman from Hadapsar, a 57-year-old man from Phursungi, an 83-year-old man from Erandwane and a 64-year-old man from Bibvewadi.