2,758 test Covid-19 positive in PMR, more than 3,000 recover

PUNE: More than 3,000 people recovered from Covid-19 in Pune Metropolitan Region on Sunday, marking the rare instance in which those discharged outnumbered the positive cases in a 24-hour period.
With the 3,171 recoveries, a total of 79,597 have been discharged in the region so far, data from Pune district health officer (DHO) Bhagawan Pawar showed. In Pune, 1,879 were discharged, while the number stood at 987 in Pimpri Chinchwad.

On Sunday, 2,758 people tested positive for the contagion, taking the regional tally to over 1.08 lakh. Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad contributed 1,390 and 1,092 cases, respectively. The municipal councils, cantonments and rural areas together recorded 276 fresh cases.
The total number of active cases (people being treated for the contagion) on Sunday stood at 26,185, of whom 12,187 were under home quarantine.
A total of 15,812 people are undergoing treatment in Pune Municipal Corporation limits, with 6,601 patients in hospital isolation. A daily report issued by PMC stated that 726 patients were in a critical condition at various hospitals in its limits. Of them, 448 are on ventilator support, the PMC report added.
The DHO’s report also stated that 55 people succumbed to Covid-19 on Sunday, taking PMR’s toll to 2,469. Twenty-eight people died in Pune municipal limits and eight in Pimpri Chinchwad civic limits. The councils, cantonments and rural areas together recorded 19 fatalities. With this, 1,579 people have died of the virus in PMC limits so far, and 502 in PCMC areas.
Most of those who died on Sunday had underlying health problems, such as respiratory problems, heart issues, hypertension and diabetes, health officials said.
On Saturday, 70 patients had succumbed to Covid-related complications in the region, making it the highest single-day toll for the region so far.
Nearly five lakh samples have been tested in PMR so far, with a majority done in PMC (3,19,588), followed by Pimpri Chinchwad, which tested 1,20,533 samples.
The district is conducting 50,260 tests per million population, which is more than twice that of Maharashtra, which is testing at the rate of 20,321 per million.