Pune metropolitan region adds 2,403 cases as tally crosses 56,000

PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region recorded over 2,000 cases for the second day in a row, on Tuesday. The 2,403 new cases pushed the region’s overall tally to 56,416.

These included 1,452 cases from Pune Municipal Corporation limits, 560 from areas under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s jurisdiction and 391 new patients from rural areas and cantonment areas. With Tuesday’s addition, the caseload in PMC limits stood at 37,435, while PCMC’s total positive cases climbed to 12,557.
The region reported 55 deaths on Tuesday, pushing the overall toll to 1,442.
A report released by PMC said that 805 patients were discharged on Tuesday after they were declared recovered. This took the total number of patients that recovered from the contagion to 24,246.
As on Tuesday, there were 15,434 active cases in PMC limits. Of these, 616 patients were critical and 99 were placed on ventilator support. The swab collection and rapid antigen test count stood at 6,222.
The oldest among the those who died at Sassoon general hospitals and government-run hospitals was a 90-year-old man from Upper Indiranagar. The others included an 80-year-old man from Bibvewadi, a 54-year-old man from Sadashiv Peth, an 82-year-old resident of Kothrud, a 54-year-old NIBM Road resident, a 46-year-old woman from Somwar Peth, a 71-year-old from Lohegaon, a 73-year-old man from Yerawada, a 78-year-old man from Tingrenagar, a 55-year-old Wanowrie resident, a 45-year-old man from Kharadi, a 41-year-old male resident of from Kondhwa, a 64-year-old woman from Nana Peth, a 72-year-old woman from Parvati, a 70-year-old resident of Dattawadi and a 65-year-old from Yerawada.
Further, twelve of the 14 patients who succumbed to the contagion in private hospitals were senior citizens.