3,520 test positive; over 10,000 recover in Pune Metropolitan Region

PUNE: The number of people recovering from Covid-19 in Pune Metropolitan Region jumped to 10,223 on Saturday, while just over 3,500 people tested positive for the contagion.

The trend held across the region, with the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations, cantonments and rural areas reporting more recoveries than fresh cases.
PMR’s overall positivity rate stood at 12% on Saturday, with 29,124 samples tested.
Pune had 840 fresh cases, while Pimpri Chinchwad added 641 patients. The positivity rate in both Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad was under 10%, with the former testing 11,380 samples and the latter testing 7,350 samples.
In the rest of the region, the positivity rate stood at 19.6%, with the addition of 2,007 cases against 10,226 samples tested.
A report released by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that 92 patients died of the infection across the region on Saturday. About 40 deaths were recorded in PMC limits, while 28 people died in Pimpri Chinchwad. Twenty-four people succumbed in the rural areas, cantonments, and municipal council limits.
As of Saturday, PMR’s tally of positive cases stood at 9.94 lakh, and the overall recoveries rose to 9.25 lakh.
The tally of active cases in the region dropped to 51,429 on Saturday. This included 20,408 patients being treated at various hospitals in the region, and 31,021 people who opted for home isolation.