PUNE: The
Pune Metropolitan Region (
PMR) recorded just four
deaths due to
Covid-19 on Friday, its least single-day toll in eight months. While one death each was recorded in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal limits, two
patients died in the rural areas.
PMR had last recorded four deaths on May 4, 2020. The
fatalities peaked in August and September last year before dropping gradually due to better medical care. So far, as many as 8,822 people have succumbed to Covid-related complications in PMR.
The region recorded 740
recoveries and 572 new cases on Friday, taking the total discharges and caseload to 3.48 lakh and 3.63 lakh, respectively.
The data released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that 324 patients were discharged in
PMC limits on Friday as against additions of 302 cases, while the rural areas reported more than double recoveries as against new infections of 150 cases.
The active caseload dropped further to 6,043 in the region on Friday. As many as 4,284 patients were in home isolation, while 1,759 in hospitals till Friday evening.
The sample testing in the region reached 18.79 lakh, with 8,152 samples being tested at various laboratories in the last 24 hours. Of these, as many as 4,140 samples were tested in the PMC limits and 2,086 in the
PCMC limits.
The number of patients on oxygen support dropped to 637 in the PMC limits on Friday. As many as 250 patients were at critical stage, of whom 160 were on ventilator support, a PMC health department official said.