Nagpur: The
district on Wednesday registered 5,338 Covid-19 cases, highest-ever in a day in 13-month pandemic and over 5,000 for the first time. Previous highest was 4,110 new cases reported on April 4. Also, 66 deaths were recorded on Wednesday.
There were 3,868 recoveries, leaving 42,933 active cases, both new high marks. The number of fatalities in the district was probably highest among all districts in the country on Wednesday too.
The first week of April was worst ever in the pandemic. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), Zilla Parishad (ZP) along with government and private laboratories conducted highest ever 19,191 tests on Wednesday. Of the new cases, 3,283 were in city, 2,048 in rural, and seven from other districts. Previous high mark for cases in city was 2,966 on March 26 and in rural 1,200 on April 4.
Of 66 deaths, 34 were city residents, 25 from rural and seven from other districts who tested positive and died in the hospitals in the district. Earlier, highest number was 64 on September 17, 2020.
The rise in active cases to 42,933 is matter of another worry. Already, the district is facing severe shortage of beds for last 15 days which is likely to deteriorate.
On Wednesday, 3,868 patients were declared recovered. Previous highest recoveries in a day were 3,703 on April 5.
District saw 76,250 new cases in entire March and has registered 28,183 cases in first week of April, not only highest weekly figure ever but also more than figures of all months excluding September last year and March this year.
District also conducted 1,14,321 tests in first week of April which too is highest-ever. In spite of steep rise in tests, test positivity rate (TPR) in the district surged to 24.65%. Previous highest number of tests was 54,185 in second week of September last year. In that week, 12,441 cases were detected or a TPR of 22.96%. Highest weekly TPR was 29.5% in second week of August last year due to high cases (4,998) in fewer tests (16,943).
The deaths are also consistently rising. In all, 406 fatalities were recorded in first week of April or an average of 58 daily. Previous high was 392 deaths in third week of September last year. At that time, case fatality rate (CFR) was 3.37% as cases were 11,634. Now, CFR is low at 1.44% as number of cases is very high (28,183).