Vid recovery rate touches 60% mark again

Nagpur: Last week of August began with a good news of increase in recovery rate for Vidarbha region. On Monday, 1,349 patients from Vidarbha recovered against 1,255 new cases detected in the region. With this, total 26,601 patients out of 44,198 have recovered till date, which improved the recovery rate to 60%. This is for the first time since August 8 when the recovery rate is at 60%.
For the last five days, the region has been reporting more than 1,000 patients recovering from Covid-19. Total 6,641 patients have recovered between August 20 and 24.
On August 24, Nagpur reported 979 recoveries, followed by Buldhana (95), Amravati (67), Yavatmal (47), Chandrapur (45), Wardha (37), Washim (28), Akola (18), Gondia (14), Gadchiroli (14), and Bhandara (5). On the other hands, day’s new cases were 1,255. These include Nagpur (715), Amravati (110), Yavatmal (94), Buldhana (55), Akola (52), Chandrapur (47) Gondia (45), Bhandara (39), Wardha (39), Washim (37), and Gadchiroli (22).
Death toll of Vidarbha, however, continued to remain a matter of grave concern. On August 24, total 41 deaths were reported in the region. Alarmingly, deaths reported from Nagpur division were 39. These include 32 from Nagpur, 3 from Wardha, 2 from Chandrapur, 1 from Bhandara and Gondia each. Except Gadchiroli, all districts in Nagpur division reported casualties. Total Vidarbha Covid-19 toll reached 1,215 with 830 of them reported in August alone. Wardha, for the first time, reported three deaths in a day.
WARDHA: Three coronavirus patients died in the district, including a 64-year-old and 57-year-old men from Arvi and an 80-year-old resident of Pulgaon, while 39 new patients were registered and 37 got discharged on Monday. Total 212 reports were received in the day and 39 of them were positive — Wardha (18), Hinganghat (12), Selu (3), Karanja (2), Deoli (2) and each one from Arvi and Samudrapur. The total cases in the district reached 665, and patients under treatment are 217. Total recoveries are 432.
CHANDRAPUR: District registered two deaths raising the toll to 17, and the spike of 47 cases took the Covid-19 total to 1,495 on Monday. The day also witnessed discharge of 45 patients helping the number of cured patients to climb up to 998. This has left 481 patients under treatment in district.
Health authorities informed that a 53-year-old Covid patient from WCL Colony in Bhadrawati died on Sunday evening. He was admitted to Covid Hospital here on Sunday afternoon and he succumbed the same evening. Another 65-year-old patient from Jatpura locality in city also died of Covid-19 on Monday. Both the deceased were also suffering from pneumonia. This is first time when more than one death has been registered in the district in a day.
Majority of newfound patients during the day came from Chandrapur. They include 29 from Chandrapur city, eight from Mul, five from Bhadrawati, three from Gondpipri and two from Bramhapuri tehsils.
YAVATMAL: The district has recorded two more deaths on August 24. A 67-year-old woman from Yavatmal city and a 60-year-old man from Pusad died during treatment. With the two deaths, the Covid toll is now 68.
Total 94 new patients were reported on Monday of whom 60 are men. Of the 94, Yavatmal city has 28 patients (19 men and 9 women) which is the highest number of patients reported in a day so far. Pusad with 21 patients (7 women) reported second largest spike of the day. As per officials, there are 592 patients admitted in various Covid-19 Care Centres across the district.
A total of 47 patients were discharged from isolation wards. Total 196 are in home quarantine while 173 are in the isolation wards. On Monday, 130 swab samples were sent to the lab. The district has recorded 2,714 patients so far of whom 1,850 have recovered. Total 42,580 swabs were sent to labs of which 41,441 reports have been received. Total 38,727 reports were negative. Surprisingly, 1,139 reports are yet to be received.
GONDIA: The district witnessed Covid-19 death for the second consecutive day on August 24. A 62-year-old patient, a resident of Vijayanagar in Gondia, died on August 23 night during treatment at GMC. Besides, as many as 45 new cases were diagnosed and 14 patients recovered in a day. Of 45 new cases, 33 are from Gondia tehsil alone. Now, 1,059 persons in the district have been found Covid positive so far, 756 citizens have recovered and 289 are under treatment.
AMRAVATI: Posting the 12th 100-plus single-day spike this month and 14th overall, the district took its Covid count to 4,687 with 113 new cases on Monday. With no death reported today, the toll remained at 112, while 67 patients who got discharge took the number of recovered patients to 3,401.
The rural belt reported 54 cases for the second successive day to take its count to 1,308. Anjangaon Surji with 21 cases and Nandgaon Khandeshwar with 14 cases accounted for most of the rural cases, taking their own count to 124 and 50, respectively. Dhamangaon Railway and Achalpur reported four each cases. Warud and Paratwada reported two each that took their count to 88 and 67, respectively. Lone cases came from seven other rural places.
In city, Baku Colony reported seven Covid cases while four came from Devadartnagar and three each from Krushnagar and Gandhi Chowk. Two cases each were reported from Vivekanand Colony, Chaprasipura, Irwin Hospital and Sainagar. Single cases came from 27 other localities.
AKOLA: The district received 350 reports of Covid-19 suspects in the last 24 hours. Out of them, 52 tested positive. Akola has been constantly conducting more than 300 Covid-19 tests daily and case positivity rate is going down here. On August 24, total 18 patients received discharge. The district has 3,520 cases, including 3,022 of them recovered and 144 deaths. Now, total 354 patients are under treatment.
BHANDARA: District once again reported rise of 39 Covid-19 patients and 1 death. This took total number of Covid-19 cases in Bhandara to 859 and total deaths to 14. For last four days, Bhandara has been reporting daily Covid-19 death. Five patients recovered and were discharged on August 24. With 462 patients recovered, total 383 are under treatment.
BULDHANA: Out of 220 reports received on August 24, 55 tested positive. Record 95 patients got recovered in the district. No death was reported on Monday. Now, Buldhana has total 2,635 cases, including 1,783 recoveries, 42 deaths and 810 under treatment.
WASHIM: District reported 37 new Covid-19 patients on August 24 taking total cases to 1,468. Total 28 patients recovered. Now, Washim has 387 patients under treatment. No death was reported on Monday, so Covid death toll in Washim remained 27, including a suicide.
GADCHIROLI: Covid-19 cases in the district reached 916 with 22 new cases on Monday. Along with this, 14 patients recovered taking the number of recoveries to 811. With 1 death reported in the past, Gadchiroli now has 104 patients under treatment.