COVID-19: Pune district surpasses Mumbai with highest progressive positive cases tally

Pune: District is now officially on top of the table of all districts in the state having the highest tally of Covid-19 progressive positive cases till date since the outbreak began in March month. Pune surpassed Mumbai on Sunday (August 16) with 3088 fresh Covid-19 positive cases reported in a single day. These figures were reported by the state health department. It has also recorded 86393 recovered patients count including 3085 patients recovered on Sunday alone.

The first case of Covid-19 positive patients was detected on March 9 in Pune. If a break up of Pune district is taken into account then, the Pimpri-Chinchwad city urban area accounts for 34,579 progressive positive cases and 603 deaths till August 16. Pune city urban area has reported 79,488 progressive positive cases and 2,051 deaths and rural areas of Pune district have about 16,539 progressive positive cases and 539 deaths.

With the current rate of new Covid-19 cases reported from Pune district every day, it will take another two to three weeks for Pune to overtake Delhi too, which has been the worst affected region in the recent past.

Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in its medical bulletin on August 16 evening has said that there are about 14,702 active patients of which critical patients are 760. Out of these critical patients, 462 are on ventilator support in ICU and 298 are without ventilator support but admitted in ICU. About 2,458 people are undergoing oxygen treatment.

So far, five doctors have succumbed to the Covid-19 disease in the district. It includes two doctors from Pune city who died on Sunday. They were identified as Ophthalmologist Dr Nandkumar Shah (71) and Orthopedic Surgeon Dr Anil Salgia (74). They both had stopped their medical practice and were earlier attached with private hospitals in Raviwar Peth and Pimpri respectively. Earlier, three general practitioners, one from Pune city and two from rural areas of Pune district had succumbed to the disease.