PUNE: Not a single casualty due to Covid-19 was registered in the Pune municipal limits on Saturday, a first since April 15 last year.
Overall, two persons succumbed to the infection in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) in the past 24 hours, which was again the least number of mortality since April last year.
Besides the PMC limits, the rural areas also did not report any death on Saturday. Two patients succumbed to the infection in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) limits, a report released by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated.
With Saturday’s casualties, the toll in PMR reached 9,094. Among these, 4,945 deaths were from the PMC areas, followed by the rural areas (2,328) and the PCMC limits (1,821).
Pune mayor Muralidhar Mohol took to Twitter to praise the efforts of medical teams in fighting the pandemic. The city has not reported a single death on a day after April 15, 2020, Mohol tweeted.
A report by DHO stated that 597 patients were discharged in PMR on Saturday as against 418 new cases. The municipal corporations of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, as well as the rural areas, reported more recoveries than new cases. The region’s total recoveries have now reached 3.75 lakh, while its tally of positive cases stands at 3.88 lakh.
Altogether 6,631 tests were conducted in the region on Saturday, including 3,239 from the PMC limits. PCMC health officials tested 1,880 samples, while 1,512 samples were tested in the rural areas in the past 24 hours. With this, the tally of sample testing has reached above 21.43 lakh.
The number of active patients in the region dropped to 4,637 on Saturday evening. As many as 2,921 patients were in home isolation, while 1,716 patients were admitted in various hospitals for further treatment, the report stated.