482 positive 100-day low in Nagpur, city’s 246 least since Feb 9

NAGPUR: Covid cases plunged to a 100-day low of 482 in Nagpur district on Monday. Of these, 246 were recorded in city limits, 227 in rural areas and 9 from other districts. The city’s tally too was lowest in 105 days.
The district had reported 455 cases on February 14 this year while Nagpur city’s previous lowest than Monday’s tally was 201 on February 9, after which the cases kept spiralling up.
Though close to 5,000 less tests were performed, the district cases crashed over 50% from a day before.
The district witnessed 29 deaths, including 8 from rural, 12 in city and 9 from out of district. After 2,003 recovered on Monday, 12,384 patients are under treatment now.
The daily Covid cases in city have dipped to 246 after 105 days. On February 9, days before the second surge began, the city had recorded 201 cases out of total 230 reported in the district.
Between February 9 and May 24, the city saw 2,20,551 cases, which comes to an average of 2,100 per day or nearly 87 cases every hour.
Though testing was closed at many civic centres on Sunday, the 246 cases were reported from 13,129 tests, which is over thrice that of before the second wave. The district had been roughly testing between 3,000 and 5,000 samples a day in February.
The day’s positivity rate too fell to 3.6% from 5.7% a day before. Considering 4,887 less number of tests were performed on Monday, the positivity rate still going down is a welcome sign for the district, which was one of the firsts to be engulfed in the second wave surge. Yet, the overall positivity rate of the district remains at 17% for all the samples tested positive till date. The district labs have now performed over 27 lakh RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests (RATs) since the pandemic broke out.
The number of patients under treatment has come down to 12,384 while it had hit the roof one time at over 60,000. Now of the total patients under treatment, 3,142 (little over 25%) are hospitalized or in Covid Care Centres.