Nagpur district alone reports 40 of Vidarbha’s 45 Covid deaths on Friday

NAGPUR: The increasing graph of Covid-19 deaths in Vidarbha took a never-before leap on August 7 with 45 casualties reported in a day. Of these, 40 deaths were reported from Nagpur district only. Amravati reported three deaths, while Akola and Yavatmal one each. With this, total Covid-19 death toll of Vidarbha has reached 587, with 200 of them reported in the first seven days of August.
Surge in the number of cases also continued, especially in Nagpur and Amravati. With Nagpur’s 669 and Amravati’s 108, Vidarbha’s total Covid-19 cases reached 20,848 on Friday. It took 150 days for the region to reach this mark, but last 4,000 cases came in just five days. Buldhana (81), Washim (57), Yavatmal (34), Chandrapur (28), Akola (28), Gadchiroli (23), Bhandara (10), Wardha (8), and Gondia (7) registered new cases.
Total 441 patients recovered in a day on Friday. They include Nagpur (252), Amravati (49), Akola (41), Buldhana (29), Yavatmal (21), Chandrapur (12), Wardha (9), and Gondia (7). Total 12,772 patients have recovered from Vidarbha which means the recovery rate is 61.25%. Vidarbha continued to stay considerably below the state’s recovery rate of 66% and national average of 67%.
AMRAVATI: Three Covid-19 deaths and a spike of 108 cases on Friday took the district’s toll to 86 and patient count to 2,872. A report from civil surgeon’s office on Friday said a 70-year-old woman from Vanipura in Karanja Lad town of Washim district, a 62-year-old man from Paratwada and a 47-year-old man from Gandhinagar in Old City, Badnera, died during treatment at Covid Hospital today.
The 100-plus spike is the third the district has reported this month and the fifth overall. The highest of 146 was reported on August 2. With 49 getting discharge today, the number of recovered patients reached 1,902. This left 884 under treatment, including 21 in Nagpur.
The rural belt again reported 34 cases today to take its count to 689. Nine of them came from Daryapur that took its count to 38. Four cases came from Dharni that took its count to 47. Achalpur tehsil also reported four cases to take its count to 36 while two cases each came from Bhatkuli, Paratwada, Teosa and Chandur Railway that took their count to 32, 31, 11 and 16, respectively. Single cases came from Nandgaon Peth, Walgaon, Shirajgaon Kasba, Morshi, Chandur Bazar, Chikhaldara, Anjangaon Surji, Shirala and Rahatgaon.
Badnera reported seven cases to take its count to 225, while Chaitanya Colony reported its first spike of four. Four cases also came from Bhaji Bazar and Shankarnagar that took their respective count to nine and 30. Krushnanagar too reported four cases to take its count to 23.
Deorankarnagar, Rampuri Camp and Rukmininagar reported three cases each to take their count to four, 13 and 41, respectively.
Two cases each came from Rahulnagar, Yashodanagar, Ravinagar, PDMC, Kalyannagar and Mangilal Plot while single cases came from 27 localities.
AKOLA: A 61-year-old man from Jatharpeth area of Akola died during treatment on August 7. He was admitted since July 28. This took total Covid-19 death count of Akola to 122. However, the number of new positive cases is coming down. Total 28 cases were reported from Akola district in a day on Friday taking total number of cases to 2,908. On the other hand, 41 patients got discharge on Friday taking the number of recovered patients to 2,345. Recovery rate of Akola is still above 80%. Total 441 patients are under treatment.
YAVATMAL: The city recorded one more death of Friday, 40th of the district. Including the deceased, who was a 73-year-old woman from Yavatmal city, there were 34 new patients on August 7. Total 21 patients were discharged after recovery with which total number of patients recovered from Yavatmal surpassed 1,000-mark and reached 1,015. At present, 337 patients are under treatment in Yavatmal. Total 122 persons are admitted in the isolation wards of GMC Yavatmal.
CHANDRAPUR: District registered a spike of 28 cases taking the total of Covid-19 patients to 777 on Friday. In all, 12 patients were discharged during the day taking the tally of cured patients to 438, while 339 patients are under treatment. As no death was reported on Friday, toll stands at two.
Health authorities claimed that spike in the number of patients is due to increased tests being conducted across the district. Out of total 28 cases detected on Friday, 17 tested positive with the help of antigen tests. Of these, 15 are from Ballarpur city.
Officials informed that out of total 777 patients, 15 belong to age group between zero to five years, 56 to age group of six to 18 years, 482 patients are between age group of 19 and 40 years, 191 belong to age group of 41 to 60 years and the number of those above 60 years is 33.
Total patients include 554 males and 223 females. Those detected positive in Chandrapur include 681 from district, 42 from other districts of Maharashtra and 54 from other states.
BHANDARA: Ten new persons — five from Bhandara, two each from Lakhni and Mohadi and one from Lakhandur tested positive in the district on Friday. This took the total number of patients to 352. With 231 of them recovered and two deaths reported earlier, total 119 patients from Bhandara are under treatment. Six of them have been referred to Nagpur.
GONDIA: Seven Corona positive cases were registered in the district on Friday while seven patients recovered. Positives include one from Shastri Ward, two from Ekodi of Gondia, two from Tiroda tehsil, one each from Sadak Arjuni and Amgaon tehsils.
BULDHANA: Once again, Buldhana reported 81 positive patients in a day taking the total number of cases to 1,768. With 29 discharged in a day, number of patients who recovered surpassed 1,000-mark and reached 1,019. With 35 deaths reported till date, total 714 patients are under treatment in Buldhana. Total 526 reports were received on Friday in the district. Till date, Buldhana has conducted more than 13,000 tests.
WASHIM: With 34 new patients on Thursday late night and 23 on Friday, the district reported 57 new cases. With this, total cases surged to 870 here. With 21 patients getting discharge, number of recovered patients is now 491. Washim has reported 18 deaths. Total 361 patients are under treatment.
WARDHA: Eight more persons tested positive for coronavirus in the district, while nine were discharged on Friday. Five men and three women are among the positives from Wardha (4), Deoli tahsil (3), and one form Selu. A 30-year-old man from Sewagram, 47-year-old man, 40-year-old woman from Hanuman ward and 22-year-old youth from Dr Zakir Hussain Colony of Wardha, 62-year-old man, 50-year-old woman and 18-year-old boy from Zadgaon village of Deoli tahsil, 50-year-old woman of Selu are among those tested positive. After discharge of nine patients today, there are total 34 patients undergoing treatment.
GADCHIROLI: With 12 jawans from Wadsa CRPF Battalion, two police jawans from Aheri, and three from Dhanora police station — total 23 new Covid-19 cases were detected in Gadchiroli. With this, total number of cases reached 694. Of them, 510 have already recovered, and one death was reported in May. Total 183 patients are under treatment in Gadchiroli.