PUNE: The daily Covid-19 recoveries continued to stay above new cases in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday, with 628 patients being declared cured as against 500 people testing positive.
With this, the total positive caseload in PMR increased above 3.86 lakh, while recoveries rose past 3.73 lakh on Thursday evening. Among the new recoveries, the Pune municipal limits reported 328, followed by the rural areas (216) and the PCMC limits (84).
A report released by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that among the 500 new patients reported on Thursday, the PMC and rural areas reported 228 and 159 patients respectively, while the PCMC limits added 113.
Eight more patients succumbed to the infection in PMR on Thursday, taking the region’s toll to 9,086.
The region tested 7,146 samples on Thursday for the infection, including 3,886 in the PMC limits samples, taking the total testing above 21.30 lakh. The tally of active patients dropped to 4,815 on Thursday evening.
The state on Thursday added 2,736 Covid cases and 46 deaths, taking its tally to 20,36,002 and toll to 51,215. Active cases in the state fell further to 34,862, of which 5,647 were in Mumbai.