Pune Metropolitan Region: Over 3k test Covid positive, 108 more dead

PUNE: The Covid-19 positivity rate dropped to 15% in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Tuesday, with 3,741 people testing positive for the infection in the region in the past 24 hours as against 7,358 recoveries and 23,993 sample testing.
As many as 2,892 patients were discharged in the PMC limits in the last 24 hours, followed by the rural and Cantonment limits (2,373) and PCMC areas (2,093).

The PCMC areas continued to report new cases in 3-digits (605) even on Tuesday, while the PMC limits added 1,021 new patients. The rural and Cantonments parts added 2,115 new infections. With this, the total cases in the region increased to 9.76 lakh, while discharges reached above 8.93 lakh.
Among the tests, the rural and Cantonment areas checked 9,723 samples, while the PMC tested 9,258 samples and 5,012 tests were conducted in the Pimpri Chinhwad areas.
As many as 108 patients succumbed to the infection in the region on Tuesday. These included 46 deaths reported from the PMC limits, 40 from the PCMC areas and 22 deaths from the rural and Cantonment areas. The region’s death toll has increased to 15,549.
Active cases in the region further dropped to 67,373 on Tuesday evening, including 45,473 patients in home isolation and 21,900 being treated at various hospitals, a report released by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated.