Covid-19: Cases down, recovery up even as testing remains high in Vidarbha

NAGPUR: Despite conducting more than 62,000 tests in the last 24 hours, Vidarbha region reported only 11,150 new cases — the second-lowest in May so far. On the other hand, 16,276 patients recovered in a day, the highest in May.
The daily death toll increased and it was 241. Overall, 8.12 lakh patients out of 9.59 lakh have recovered and the recovery rate is once again at 84.6%.

All these positive developments happened on Saturday due to an impressive decline in number of new cases in Nagpur district. The second capital of Maharashtra reported 3,827 new cases, lowest over the last few days and 7,799 recoveries.
However, other districts in Vidarbha, especially rural and tribal areas, continued to report high number of cases. Amravati (1,241) and Chandrapur (1,160) reported more than 1,000 cases again. Buldhana (957), Yavatmal (841) and Wardha (821) continued to report a surge.
Bhandara (548), Akola (523), Washim (491), Gadchiroli (431), and Gondia (310) reported fewer than usual cases, but most of these districts have curtailed the number of daily tests below average.
Deaths also are coming from rural parts of Vidarbha and not from cities and towns. Out of day’s 241 deaths; 51 were registered in Nagpur city, 16 from Nagpur rural and 14 were the patients recovered from the other states/divisions.
Wardha reported 27 deaths, Gadchiroli and Akola 22 each and Chandrapur 21. Yavatmal reported 20 deaths. Most of these deaths were reported from villages and not from the cities. Cases are declining, but deaths are not reducing in that comparison. Due to this, the case fatality rate of Vidarbha surged to 1.74% on Saturday.
As the number of patients recovering from the last 8 days is more than the number of new cases, now Vidarbha has 1,30,699 patients under treatment. This number was more than 1.60 lakh in the beginning of May. In a nutshell, cases are declining and more beds are free for Covid-19 patients in cities, but conditions are still alarming in rural areas of Vidarbha.
Bhandara: 548 out of total 1,841 samples tested in last 24 hours in Bhandara tested positive. Recoveries continued to be at higher end at 1259. The district used to conduct more than 8,000 cases per day earlier. This number is under-2000 since last three-four days. Cases have declined due to this. Bhandara reported 12 deaths taking death toll to 963. Total 6,824 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: The district conducted total 1,238 tests out of which 310 tested positive. Positivity rate is more than 25% which is alarming. Seven deaths were reported in Gondia on Saturday taking total death toll to 587. Totally 4,072 patients are under treatment.
Gadchiroli: 22 deaths were reported in Gadchiroli on Saturday taking total death toll of the district to 528. Totally 431 new cases and 545 recoveries were reported. Now, Gadchiroli has 4,258 patients under treatment.
Washim: 491 new cases, 524 recoveries and 1 death was reported in Washim. This took total case load to 31,605 and recoveries to 26,795. Total 4,477 patients are under treatment.
Akola: Out of 3,758 tests conducted in last 24 hours, 523 tested positive in Akola. On the other hand, 550 patients recovered. Total 22 deaths were reported, most from rural parts. Death toll of Akola has reached 787. Now, 6,353 patients are under treatment in district.
Buldhana: More than 6,500 tests were done out of which 957 tested positive in Buldhana. Total case load surpassed 70k mark now. Buldhana is the only district after Nagpur, Chandrapur and Amravati to surpass 70,000 mark of Covid-19 cases in Vidarbha region. 5833 patients are still under treatment.
Chandrapur: There were 2001 recoveries, 1,160 new cases and 21 deaths registered on Saturday.
Amravati: A record spike of 1,241 took the caseload to 74,249 even as 19 deaths increased the toll to 1,099.
Yavatmal: The toll touched 1,461 after 20 deaths on Saturday. Out of the 7,559 reports, 841 were positive.
Wardha: Saturday saw the district registering 821 positive cases, 27 deaths and 716 Covid recoveries.