1,000 deaths in August alone, Covid cases nearing 50k mark

Nagpur: Covid-19 deaths continued to hound Vidarbha region on Thursday as 10 out of 11 districts in the region reported Covid deaths for the first time. All together 61 deaths were reported, the second highest daily toll after Wednesday’s 64. The death toll of Vidarbha has reached 1,399, of which 1,012 deaths occurred in the 27 days of August.
Case fatality rate of Vidarbha, which was between 2.6% to 2.7% till yesterday, surged to 2.8% on Thursday. Increase of 0.1 appears negligible, but it’s serious as number of cases is also increasing daily. Total 1,808 new cases were reported on Thursday across Vidarbha. These took total Covid-19 cases to 49,854, just a few cases away from the 50,000 mark.
Nagpur once again reported 1,050 – highest share in Vidarbha cases. These include 886 from Nagpur city (NMC), 162 from Nagpur rural (district) and 2 from other districts/states. Amravati (148), Chandrapur (132), Yavatmal (85), Bhandara (70), Wardha (65), Gondia (65), Buldhana (62), Gadchiroli (56), Washim (38), and Akola (37) followed.
Only respite for the region is the increasing recovery rate. On Thursday, it was 61.24% which is constantly showing upward trend. However, Vidarbha’s recovery rate is way lower than Maharashtra and national average, both of which are around 75%. Recoveries include Nagpur (1,054), Amravati (131), Wardha (47), Washim (34), Buldhana (27), Yavatmal (26), Bhandara (24), Akola (20), Chandrapur (13), Gondia (11), and Gadchiroli (2).
Amravati: Posting a 100-plus spike for the fifth consecutive day, and for the 15th time in the month, the district went past 5,000 mark to 5,128 with 148 new cases today. Deaths of four patients took the toll to 122 while 131 patients were discharged to take recovered patients to 3,759. This left 1,247 active cases, including 17 taking treatment in Nagpur and 337 in home isolation. A civil surgeon office report said a 60-year-old male from Vilas Nagar, a 64-year-old male from Balaji Nagar Plot, a 41-year-old man from Shankar Nagar and a 55-year-old man from Kurali village in Warud tehsil died during treatment. The rural belt reported 57 cases to take its count to 1,469. Village Loni reported 15 cases while Savanga reported eight and Shirajgaon Mozari seven. Dhamangaon Railway reported five cases. Village Kurali reported four cases along with Warud. Three cases each came from Chandur Bazar and Nandgaon Khandeshwar while Surwadi Khurd and Chikhaldara posted two each. In city, Wadarpura reported seven cases to take its count to ten while Saraswati Nagar with four cases took its score to 30. Sai Nagar, Gadge Nagar, Budhwara and Rampuri Camp reported three cases each while two each came from Rathi Nagar, Samadhan Nagar, Irwin Hospital, Ganesh Colony, Rajapeth, Narod Nagar. Fifty-three other localities reported single cases.
Yavatmal: Yavatmal was rocked by five deaths in 24 hours, highest casualties so far. A 29-year-old youth of the city is among the dead, the youngest victim till date. All the other dead are also from Yavatmal city and tehsil. They are all men in the age group of 29 to 75 years. There are 80 new patients, 52 men and 28 women. Total 934 patients are under treatment, 654 in hospital, and 280 in home isolation. 26 patients were discharged.
Washim: Two deaths of senior citizens from Shelu Bazar village took Covid toll of district to 30. A 75-yr-old man and an 86-yr-old man from Shelu Bazar village. Earlier, five deaths have been reported from Shelu Bazar. Total 38 new patients were detected while 34 patients were discharged. Now, Washim has 375 patients under treatment.
Buldhana: An 82-yr-old man from the city and a 58-yr-old man from Sagwan, in Buldhana tehsil, died on Thursday. This took Buldhana’s toll to 44. The district received 463 reports, with 62 testing positive. Total 27 patients were discharged. Now Buldhana has 2,806 total cases, including 1,968 recovered, 44 deaths, and 794 under treatment.
Akola: With one death on Thursday, Akola saw 37 testing positive. Now, the district has 3,662 cases, with 3,090 discharged. A 58-year-old man from Khedkar Nagar, Akola, died. Akola now has 147 deaths. Total 425 patients are under treatment.
Wardha: Highest-ever single-day 65 cases were reported and a 55-year-old man of Arvi died on Thursday. 47 patients were discharged. The caseload of district increased to 797, with 544 recovered and 234 undergoing treatment. Death toll reached 19. Nineteen of the positive cases came from Wardha, 16 from Hinganghat, 10 from Arvi, seven from Karanja, six from Selu, 4 from Samudrapur, 2 from Deoli and a case in Ashti.
Gadchiroli: With 44 new cases in Chamorshi; total 56 new cases were added on Thursday taking total cases to 992. Two patients were discharged, taking total to 839. With 1 death earlier, 152 patients are under treatment.
Chandrapur: District set yet another record single-day high of 132, catapulting total to 1,799. The day also witnessed two deaths and discharge of 13 patients. The death toll now stands at 22, while 1,081 patients have been cured. This has left 696 active patients. The two victims include a 52-year-old person from Maulana Azad Ward in Ballarpur and a 60-year-old person from Pathanpura Ward in Chandrapur city. Both patients had comorbid conditions.
Bhandara: The district reported a Covid-19 death for seventh consecutive day. Now, Bhandara has 17 deaths. Highest single day spike of 70 cases was reported on Thursday. These include 46 from Bhandara tehsil alone. The district has total 997 cases. With 24 patients discharged, 544 have now recovered and 423 are being treated.
Gondia: The biggest single-day spike of 65 cases was seen in Gondia district. Of these, 51 are from hotspot Gondia tehsil. A 48-year-old patient from Tirora tehsil lost his life. 11 patients were discharged to take total of recovered to 783 from total 1,230 cases, with 16 deaths and 431 under treatment.