PUNE: The number of daily Covid-19 tests soared to a new peak of 25,031 in the
Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Thursday, Despite the rise in testing, day’s cases dropped slightly to 6,432 in PMR in the last 24 hours as against over 6,700 the previous day.
The Pune municipal areas conducted around 16,578 tests on Thursday, followed by the Pimpri Chinchwad and rural areas at 4,124 and 4,329 tests, respectively. With this, the region’s total testing has reached above 27.31 lakh.
Among the cases, the PMC areas continued to add more than 3,000 new patients for the third consecutive day. More infections have been reported from areas like Hadapsar-Mundhwa, Sinhagad Road, Ahmednagar Road, Warje-Karvenagar ward limits.
A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that Pimpri chinchwad added 1,811 new patients in the last 24 hours, while the rural and cantonment areas added 1,355 cases. The region’s total caseload now stands at 4.92 lakh, of whom the PMC areas have recorded 2.47 lakh infections, followed by the PCMC areas (1.28 lakh) and the rural parts (1.16 lakh).
The region reported 42 deaths due to the infection on Thursday, of which 23 deaths were from the PMC limits, 12 from the rural areas and seven from the PCMC areas. The region’s death count has reached 9724 .
PMR recoveries dropped to 2,808 on Thursday, including 1,200 from the PMC limits. The total recoveries in PMR now stand at 4.33 lakh.
The active cases in the region reached 49,710 on Thursday, including 39,440 patients in home isolation and 10,270 in various hospitals.