Recoveries jump past 11,000 in Pune Metropolitan Region, 151 dead

PUNE: Daily Covid-19 recoveries jumped to 11,324 on Tuesday in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR), with Pimpri Chinchwad joining the Pune municipal areas in reporting more discharges than fresh cases. Besides, 151 people succumbed to the infection in the past 24 hours, taking its toll to 12,608.
The region added 8,988 new cases on Tuesday, which took its tally above 8 lakh to 8.08 lakh. Of the new cases, as many as 3,871 were recorded in the PMC limits and 1,985 in the Pimpri Chinchwad areas. As many as 6,159 patients were discharged in the PMC limits and 2,376 in Pimpri Chinchwad in the last 24 hours.

As per the district health office data, the latest one lakh cases were added in a span of 10 days, which is in line with the addition of the previous lakh cases. The total recoveries in PMR are expected to cross 7 lakh-mark on Wednesday, with the total rising to 6.99 lakh in the last 24 hours.
Lower daily case tally, experts said, could be attributed to lesser testing in the PMR. Till Sunday, over 40,000 tests were being conducted in the region on daily basis. On Sunday, however, testing decreased to 31,272 and the tally stayed at 33.665 on Tuesday.
The PMC checked about 16,650 samples on Tuesday, while the rural and PCMC areas conducted over 3,000 and 2,770 tests, respectively. The region’s total testing has now reached up to 39.19 lakh.
Health officials said the positivity rate, which had dropped below 20% on Monday, increased to 26.7% on Tuesday.
Among the deaths recorded in PMR on Tuesday, 57 were reported in the PMC limits, 53 in the PCMC areas while 41 in the rural parts.
With an increase in discharges, the region’s active caseload dropped to 96,299. As many as 66,030 patients were in home isolation in the region and 30,269 admitted to various hospitals for further treatment, a report by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated.