Covid-19 tally soars past 75,000 in Pune, casualty count nears 1,800

PUNE: The municipal limits of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad recorded almost identical 24-hour Covid tally on Tuesday, pushing the overall caseload in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) to 75,400.
While PMC areas added 1,133 cases in the last 24 hours, the PCMC limits added 1,130 and rural as well Cantonment parts recorded 355 new cases. Overall, PMR added 2,618 cases in the last 24 hours.

The 24-hour tally for the region was 426 less on Tuesday as compared to Monday’s 3,044. The latest addition had pushed the active cases in PMC limits up to 19,135. As many as 6,567 swab tests, including antigen tests, were conducted in the PMC areas on Tuesday.
“As many as 742 patients are at critical stage, of whom 98 are on ventilator support. Besides, 591 patients were discharged on Tuesday after being declared cured,” a civic official said, adding more than 46,000 patients had been discharged in PMR so far.
PMR recorded 55 Covid-related fatalities on Tuesday, pushing the death toll up to 1,792. Available data showed that the youngest patient to succumb to the infection was a 32-year-old man from Katraj, while the oldest was a 78-year-old man from Somwar Peth. The other deceased included a 65-year-old man from Hadapsar, a 60-year-old man from Dhankawdi, a 65-year-old man from Hadapsar, a 73-year-old man from Shivajinagar, a 41-year-old woman from the Market Yard area, a 60-year-old woman from Parvati Darshan, a 69-year-old woman from Sahakarnagar, among others.
Over 50,000 people have tested positive in the month of July so far in PMR. Resultantly, over 1,800 people have been testing positive on an average in the region this month so far.