Covid menace continues in dist, 10 succumb, 179 more test positive

TNN | Jul 20, 2020, 04:06 IST

A hotspot area in the city. The Covid toll has reached to 128 in city

Kanpur: For the first time since the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was reported in the city in March, a whopping 179 Covid-19 positive cases (between 5pm on July 18 to 5pm on July 19) were recorded by the district health department on Sunday. This was the highest number of Covid-19 recorded by the health department in 24 hours so far. And 10 persons succumbed to the infection on Sunday.
This was for the third consecutive day when the number of Corona positive cases reported were above hundred. As per the data of three days provided by the district health department, 413 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the city. On July 17, 130 confirmed cases were reported followed by 104 people on next day and 179 positive cases registered on Sunday.
In past three days 23 persons succumbed to the virus infection. The health department stated that the deceased were also suffering from other ailments like diabetes, respiratory problem etc. In July so far 77 Covid deaths were reported of which 46 persons died in past nine days (from July 11-July 19). The Covid toll has reached to 128. The number of active cases, which were only 253 on July 1, have now reached to 1,063.
Meanwhile, a total of 32 persons were discharged from hospital on Sunday. According to the health department, of 2,500 people tested positive in the city 1,3,09 have been discharged. Health department informed that 10 people who died were residents of - Kidwai Nagar, Hanspuram in Naubasta, Gopalganj Nagar, Juhi Colony, Govind Nagar, TP Nagar, Kalyanpur Kala, Darshanpurwa, Babupurwa, Raipurwa.
While nine persons died at LLR hospital, one person died at Kashiram Sayukt Hospital. All of them died while being treated.
Only 486 samples for tests were collected on Sunday. A total of 623 samples were taken on the previous day.
On Friday, 1169 samples were collected. On the previous day over one thousand samples were collected. This shows the rate of testing in the past couple of days has reduced.