Nagpur: The Nagpur district created a new record of its highest Covid-19 cases in a day at 7,201, surpassing the previous high of 6,489 witnessed on April 9.
The city and Nagpur rural too reported most number of cases ever at 4,641 and 2,553, respectively. The record number of Covid cases were detected from the district’s highest-ever 26,007 tests, with rapid antigen tests constituting nearly 10,000 samples.
Cases in the 11 days of April are now higher than all other months except March. Yet another day with over 5,000 cases took this month’s tally to 52,518, which is more than the September tally (48,457). March with 76,250 cases has the district’s highest caseload in a month so far. Until the second wave hit the district, September with 48,457 cases had the highest cases reported in the pandemic.
The weeklong span from April 5 to April 11 reported 38,815 cases, which too is more any month’s caseload, except September and March.
The city and rural both had reported a decline in daily cases after three days of surge, touching the 6,000-mark on Friday. Now, the district has crossed the 7,000-mark for the first time. The decline a day before was recorded despite the number of tests remaining above 20,000.
More number of recoveries were reported at 3,240, as compared to 2,837 discharges a day before. The testing figures for the city stood at an unprecedentedly high 14,906 and for rural at 11,101. Yet, the infectivity rate of the city remained higher than that of rural. A day before, the difference was even bigger, though both city and rural had comparable testing figures.
The active cases tally too reached its highest-ever mark of 55,474, leaving the district gasping for healthcare services and medicines. The district has now recorded 18.27 lakh tests in all.