PUNE: The daily Covid-19 tally surpassed 7,000-mark (7,090) in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Friday as its tests hit another peak of 27,201 in the last 24 hours.
Daily tests have stayed above 20,000 for a majority of days since March 17.
The Pune municipal areas conducted 16,799 tests on Friday, followed by the Pimpri Chinchwad areas (5,676) and the rural as well as cantonment areas (4,726). With this, the region’s total testing has reached above 27.58 lakh.
Among the new cases, the PMC areas recorded 3,594 patients on Friday, while the PCMC and rural areas added 1,825 and 1,671 patients, respectively, in the last 24 hours. This is for the first time that the region recorded more than 7,000 daily cases on Friday. For the last two days, the region was recording more than 6,000 cases. The positive caseload in PMR has now reached above 4.99 lakh.
An increase in daily cases pushed the tally of active patients in the region beyond 50,000. A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that the region had 53,008 active cases on Friday evening, including 41,665 patients in home isolation and 11,343 admitted in various hospitals.
A majority of patients in home care indicates that most of the people testing positive for Covid-19 are showing mild symptoms, not requiring hospital care.
Meanwhile, the region reported 3,756 recoveries, of whom 2,165 were discharged in the PMC limits, 886 in the PCMC areas and 705 in the rural pockets. The tally of discharges now stands above 4.37 lakh in the region.
Among the 37 deaths reported in the region on Friday, 24 patients succumbed to the infection in the PMC limits. The region has so far recorded 9,761 deaths due to Covid-19.
206 micro-containment zones in Pune civic limits
The number of active micro-containment zones in the PMC limits have increased to 206. Of these, 78 are buildings, while 95 are housing societies and 33 are other establishments. The Ahmednagar Road-Vadgaonsheri ward office limits have 39 such zones, highest in the city, followed by Dhankawdi-Sahakarnagar (27), Aundh-Baner (23), Sinhagad Road (18). The Yerawada-Kalas-Dhanori areas have the lowest 4 mirco-containment zones, a report released by PMC stated.