PUNE: More than 5,000 people tested positive for Covid-19 for the third consecutive day in
Pune Metropolitan Region on Sunday.
A total of 5,408 new cases were added in the region in the 24 hours till 8pm on Sunday. During the same window, 2,531 patients got discharged. This took PMR’s overall tally to 4,69,478, and total recoveries to 4,20,966.
Thirty-two people succumbed to the contagion on Sunday — 20 in
Pune Municipal Corporation limits, eight in Pimpri Chinchwad and two each in municipal council areas and rural parts.
This pushed the region’s death toll to 9,569.
As of Sunday, there were 39,112 active cases in the region — 15,320 patients were being treated at various hospitals across the region and 23,792 opted for home quarantine.
Also, on Sunday, 21,112 samples were tested in the region.