Vidarbha’s Covid cases under 5,000 after 62 days

NAGPUR: The Covid-19 second wave in Vidarbha is receding rapidly as the region reported less than 5,000 cases on Monday (4,795) and more than double recoveries than new cases (10,980).
The test count too declined below 40,000 in the last 24 hours due to Sunday on May 16. Still, the decline in new cases is more remarkable. Before this, Vidarbha had reported less than 5,000 cases on March 15.

Now, out of 10,30,383 total cases in the region, 9,30,989 patients have recovered. Vidarbha’s recovery rate surpassed 90%-mark for the first time after February 28. The recovery rate (90.35%) is slightly better than the state’s 90.1% and way better than national average of 84%. This indicates, the wave is declining rapidly in Vidarbha.
The number of under-treatment patients reduced to 81,272, which is less than 8% of the total cases reported till date. Amravati (10,396) and Nagpur (26,890) are the only two districts in Vidarbha to have five-figure under-treatment patients. Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli have less than 3,000 patients each under treatment. Overall, 39,020 tests were done in the last 24 hours. Still, positivity rate has declined remarkably in most of the districts.
Day’s Covid toll in Vidarbha is at plateau. Total 147 deaths were reported on Monday. This took the total Covid toll to 18,121. It took six days to complete last 1,000 deaths (from 17,000 to 18,000) against 4 days (from 16,000 to 17,000) and 3 days (15,000 to 16,000). This means, the toll is also reducing slowly, but surely. The deaths are predominantly coming from rural parts of Vidarbha and the same trend continued even on Monday.
With Nagpur city reporting 11, Chandrapur city (1), Amravati city (7) and Akola city (6), only 25 of the 147 deaths came from municipal corporation areas. All other casualties came from rural areas. Case fatality rate of Vidarbha reached 1.75%, which is higher than the state average of 1.53%. According to experts, Covid fatality will reduce in next one week as cascading effect of fewer new cases.
Akola: The district reported 459 cases, 552 recoveries and 19 deaths on Monday which took the district’s caseload to 50,731, including 43,141 recoveries and 927 deaths. The district still has 6,663 patients under treatment.
Buldhana: The district received much needed respite on Monday. Out of 4,668 tests conducted in last 24 hours, 550 tested positive. This took the caseload of Buldhana to 78,466. Total 858 patients recovered in the day, while 3 patients died during treatment. Buldhana now has 516 total Covid deaths and 5,508 patients under treatment.
Washim: The district saw 410 cases, 491 recoveries and 3 deaths on Monday. This took the caseload to 36159, recoveries to 31,383 and deaths to 374. As on date, 4,401 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: With the detection of 132 new cases on Monday, the district’s case count has gone up to 39,461. On the other hand, 364 patients recovered in the day taking total recovery count to 35,941. Four deaths were reported from the district. Now, the Covid toll is at 641. Total 2,879 patients are under treatment in the district. More than 2,100 of them are recovering in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: Only 137 cases were reported on Monday. The number of casualties also declined to 7. Recoveries on Monday were at 415. The district now has 27,479 total cases, lowest in Vidarbha, but 630 deaths are more than three other districts. Now, Gadchiroli has 2,396 patients under treatment.
Bhandara: The fastest decline in number of under-treatment patients was reported in Bhandara in the last two weeks. The district reported 722 recoveries on Monday after which only 2,338 patients, lowest in Vidarbha, are under treatment now. This number was more than 10,000 on May 1. The district reported only 74 cases on Monday and 5 deaths.
Yavatmal: The district recorded 15 deaths which took the toll to 1,638. Out of the 6,220 reports, 518 (303 men and 215 women) were found positive. Currently, there are 4,448 active positive patients are undergoing treatment.
Wardha: There were 18 deaths, 110 positive cases and 350 recoveries on Monday. The caseload increased to 44,883, recoveries 38,955 while 4,773 active positive patients are undergoing treatment.
Amravati: New cases dropped to 870 but deaths swelled to 20, taking the caseload to 83,800 and toll to 1,270 respectively. With 1125 recoveries, the total went up to 72134.
Chandrapur: There was a spike in recoveries (1,449) as 564 tested positive. The day, however, saw 23 deaths, taking the toll to 1,275.