Dist crosses 7k deaths mark, last 1k in 12 days

Nagpur: Covid-19 deaths crossed 7,000 in the district on Monday with last 1,000 fatalities being registered in just 12 days. It is yet another indicator of second wave being more lethal than the first.
TOI had on Monday reported observations of doctors that the disease was more virulent, unpredictable in the second wave.
Nagpur surpassed Thane district (6,656 deaths) and became third among 35 districts in the state to record over 7,000 fatalities. As per government data, Mumbai has registered 12,861 deaths followed by Pune at 9,034. Nagpur is fifth in the state as far as population is concerned. Nashik district also has bigger population than Nagpur but has recorded only 2,882 deaths.
The district was at 12th position when it registered first 100 deaths on July 29 last year. It took 173 days to reach 1,000 deaths. Since then, the district has been on 4th position. The previous lowest span of 1,000 fatalities was 21 days in September last year at the peak of first wave.
The district is suffering second wave since third week of February. Cases spiked from beginning of March and deaths since third week.
In the last 12 days, highest single day toll of 113 was registered on April 19 followed by 110 on April 22. Fatalities were between 90-100 on two days, between 80-90 on five days and 70-80 on three days.
Cumulative deaths were 7,025 on Monday with 1,927 recorded in 26 days of April. Previous, highest number of fatalities was 1,465 in September last year.
Of total 7,025 deceased, 4,301 were residents of the city and 1,704 of rural areas. 1,020 deceased were from other districts who died in hospitals here.
Due to high number of positive cases, the case fatality rate (CFR) in April is less compared with August to October last year. CFR in April is 1.25% (1,927 deaths against 1,539,42 cases) whereas it was 3.80% in August followed by 3.02% in September and 3.55% in October last year.
Overall CFR of the district is 1.8% (7,025 deaths against 3,80,040 cases) and higher compared with average of state’s 1.5% and India’s 1.1%.