Nagpur: For the third day in a row, the number of day’s cases, and tests surpassed the pandemic’s highest single day spike within 24 hours on Thursday.
With the 18 days of March adding over 73,000 cases and 536 deaths, Vidarbha is likely to cross the 4 lakh in a day or so while the fatalities too may cross 8,000 mark at the same time. This will also increase the active case load to around 50,000. The tribal-belt of Gadchiroli district too crossed 10,000 cases on Thursday.
Vidarbha recorded 6,696 new cases from a whopping 43,608 tests. Increased testing in Nagpur, Buldhana, Yavatmal and Amravati also resulted in higher detection of new cases. Buldhana’s single day cases surged to 885 from 6,099 tests which is believed to be even higher than Nagpur’s in terms of population.
Nagpur district’s 3,796 cases were over 56% of the region’s caseload. The district now has over 23,000 active cases with many hospitalized.
The region also recorded 48 deaths from Nagpur (23), Wardha (4), Chandrapur (1), Akola (3) , Amravati (5), Yavatmal (7), Buldhana (3) Washim (2). The toll now stands at 7,924.
The 6,696 cases are from Nagpur (3,796), Bhandara (99), Wardha (255), Gondia (51), Chandrapur (136), Gadchiroli (54), Akola (427), Amaravati (465), Yavatmal (325), Buldhana (885) and Washim (203). This took the total case tally to 3,93,639.
Meanwhile, 3,477 recovered in the day from Nagpur (1,277), Bhandara (45), Wardha (208), Gondia (25), Chandrapur (97), Gadchiroli (27), Akola (96), Amaravati (457), Yavatmal (695), Buldhana (433) and Washim (117). The region now has 3,40,661 recovered patients and 45,053 under treatment .
Gadchiroli: No Covid death was reported and the toll remained at 108. The 54 new cases took the tally to 10,020, though lowest among all Vidarbha districts. At the same time, 27 recoveries were reported. The district now has 328 active cases. So far, 9,618 have defeated Covid and recovered in the district.
Washim: The district reported two Covid deaths and cases increased by 203 from 1,640 tests on Thursday. The district also reported 117 recoveries. Death toll is 169. The new cases took the tally to 12,095, discharged count rose to 10,485 while 1,440 are active.
Buldhana: After Amravati, the district seems to be at the receiving end of Covid. Three Covid death took place while 885 new cases from over 6,000 tests were reported. According to official data, the district now has 27,805 cases, 23,116 recoveries including 433 of Wednesday, 229 deaths and 4,460 active cases.
Bhandara: The district didn’t report a Covid death on Thursday. Day’s cases were at 99, and recoveries at 45. The district has 755 active cases. Total caseload reached 14,730, while 13,646 are recovered patients. Toll is 329.
Gondia: The district too didn’t report any Covid death. It saw 25 recoveries and 51 new cases. Number of patients under treatment are 328. The new positive patients took the tally to 14,895. So far 187 succumbed, while 14,380 recovered.
Akola: The district reported 427 cases and 3 Covid deaths on Thursday. Also, 96 recoveries were reported. The cases tally climbed to 23,135. So far, 416 people have died of Covid. With new recoveries, the tally touched 17,351. The active cases are 5,368.
Yavatmal: The district recorded seven deaths, three from the city and one each from Pusad, Digras, Umarkhed and Maregaon, taking the toll to 534 so far. Out of the 4,884 reports received on Thursday, 325 (274 men and 51 women) were found positive.
Out of the 23,214 positive patients reported so far, 20,642 including 695 on Thursday have recovered. Now, the district has 2,041 active patients under treatment.
Amravati: The district on Thursday posted 465 new cases and five deaths, taking the caseload to 44,222 and toll to 619. The 457 recoveries during the day took the total to 39,293 and recovery rate to 88.85% . Now, there are 4,310 patients under treatment.
Wardha: Three men (74, 60 and 78) from Wardha and a 72-year-old woman from Arvi died during treatment on Thursday, taking the Covid toll of the district to 400. The caseload increased to 15,707 with addition of 255 new cases. There are 1,433 patients under treatment.
Recovery count reached 13,874 after discharge to 208 patients.
Chandrapur: Once again crossing the 1,000-mark, the number of active cases reached 1,011 after detection of 136 new patients on Thursday. The day also saw 97 patients getting discharge after recovery. One patient died on Thursday, taking the district’s toll to 407. Out of the 25,264 patients reported so far, 23,846 have recovered.