PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) recorded 61 Covid-19 deaths on Sunday, its highest single-day number of fatalities so far. The number was very near Mumbai’s figure of 64. Mumbai has otherwise been registering a far higher number of casualties than the PMR.
The region also registered 2,459 fresh Covid-19 cases during 24 hours on Sunday, which was more than twice the number of cases (1,038) registered in Mumbai on the day. Cases in the PMR have now crossed the 50,000-mark to reach 51,412.
Areas in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) added 1,661 of the fresh cases on Sunday. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) areas had 595 cases, Pune rural 152 and the cantonments and other areas 51, according to a press statement issued by district heath officer Bhagwan Pawar.
Of the 61 deaths, 38 were from PMC areas, 14 from PCMC, four from Pune rural, and five from the cantonments and other parts. Seven of the deaths in the PMC limits were of people from other parts of the state who were admitted here.
The PMR has added 12,910 cases in a week’s time, up from 38,502 last Sunday (July 12).
As per PMC data, 730 people have been discharged from various hospitals after recovery across its jurisdiction on Sunday. Since the pandemic outbreak, 22,661 of the total 37,386 patients have been treated and discharged in the PMC limits. The PMC areas have 13,799 active cases.
According to a PMC report, 463 critical patients are being treated in various hospitals of which 94 are on ventilator support.