Pune metropolitan region 24-hour tally tops 4,000, toll exceeds 4,000-mark too

PUNE: The single-day case tally exceeded 4,000-mark in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Saturday, with 4,070 people testing positive in the last 24 hours. With this, the caseload in the region has increased to more than 1.64 lakh.

The development comes on a day when the region’s death toll also breached the 4,000-mark and rose to 4,010 with 73 more fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Among the new cases, the PMC areas recorded 1,968 cases, the PCMC limits reported 1,144 cases and rural as well as cantonment areas reported 958 cases. The PMC areas’ case burden increased to 92,839 on Saturday.
The active caseload in the region reached 33,688, a rise of nearly 600 from the Friday’s figure of 33,048. The region saw 3,354 recoveries on Saturday, including 1,657 from the PMC limits and 1,196 from the PCMC limits. The Saturday recoveries recorded a rise of over 1,000 patients compared to Friday, when about 2,193 patients were discharged.
The region’s total sample testing touched 7.11 lakh on Saturday, with over 14,979 tests done in the last 24 hours. Health officials said they had been doing extensive testing.
According to a PMC report, as many as 834 patients were at critical stage on Saturday, of whom 506 patients were on ventilator support and 2,901 on oxygen support.