Nagpur: Fewer cases, lower toll bring relief for Vidarbha

NAGPUR: Even though the number of Covid-19 tests reduced to 35,436 on Sunday, less than 10% of the tests done in last 24 hours in Vidarbha region turned out to be positive. Only 2,787 new cases were reported on Monday. The single digit positivity rate confirmed that the Covid-19 curve is finally moving rapidly towards the baseline.
Another positive indicator on Monday was the fewer deaths due to Covid-19 in a day. Total 108 deaths were reported, lowest since April 6. Eight out of 11 districts reported less than 10 deaths each. Deaths reduced even in rural dominated districts like Washim, Gondia, Bhandara, and Gadchiroli.
Recovery rate surging to 93.4% was another good indicator on Monday. With 6,442 recoveries, more than 3 times of the new cases, total 9,93,387 patients have recovered out of 10,63,362 cases in Vidarbha. Recovery rate of the region is better than Maharashtra state and India’s national average.
With more recoveries, the number of under-treatment patients went under 50,000 for the first time in last two months. Now, 49,532 patients are under treatment in Vidarbha, which is less than 5% of the total cases. Now, Bhandara and Gondia districts have less than 1,000 patients under treatment. Even in Nagpur district, the number has reduced to 12,384.
Out of 108 deaths, 29 were reported from Nagpur with 12 of them from Nagpur city, 8 from Nagpur rural and nine from patients referred from other states or divisions. Chandrapur district reported 21 deaths, 2 of them from city and other 19 from rural. Akola district reported 5 deaths, 2 of them from city. In Amravati, 09 deaths were reported.
Bhandara: Only 52 new cases were reported in Bhandara on Monday. Total cases reached 57,997. With 96 patients getting discharge after recovery, the number of recovered patients is 55,974. Two deaths were reported which took total to 1,044. Now, 979 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: Out of 2,409 tests done in last 24 hours, Gondia reported 149 new cases. Total 130 patients recovered and three deaths were reported. This took total death toll to 669 while 731 patients are under treatment in Gondia.
Gadchiroli: Only 53 new cases were reported on Monday in Gadchiroli while 262 patients recovered. Death toll also reduced to 7. Now, the district has 28,763 cases, lowest in Vidarbha region; 26,452 recoveries, 697 deaths and 1,614 patients are still under treatment.
Akola: The district reported 214 new cases on Monday; lowest in last several weeks. On the other hand, 494 patients recovered. Death toll also reduced to 05. Now, Akola has 53,969 cases, 46,826 recoveries and 1,015 deaths reported till date. Still, 6,128 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: Case load was down to 427 in Buldhana, but that was due to the reduced test count. The district conducted 3,401 tests, against more than 5,000 per day average. Total 509 patients recovered. Nine deaths were reported. Now, the district has 82,763 cases, 77,494 recoveries and 567 deaths reported till date. Total 4,702 patients are under treatment.
Washim: 241 new cases were reported in Washim on Monday. 578 patients recovered while 05 deaths were reported. Now, 3,015 patients are under treatment.
Chandrapur: There were 323 new cases and 687 recoveries on Monday leaving 5,366 patients under treatment. The day also registered 21 deaths taking the Covid toll to 1,389. The district’s Covid caseload has climbed to 81,278, while total recoveries account for 74,523 as on Monday.
Yavatmal: The district recorded six deaths on Monday which took the Covid toll to 1,724. Also, 5,278 test reports were received in the day of which 245 (152 men and 93 women) were found positive. Currently, there are 2,884 patients under treatment — 1,547 in hospitals and 1,337 in home isolation. Of the total 70,954 patients, 66,349, including 416 of Monday, have recovered. Test positivity rate of the district is 12.11% and death rate is at 2.43 %.
Amravati: A spike of 542 cases and nine deaths took the district’s caseload to 89,022 and toll to 1,382 even as 922 recoveries boosted the total to 79,463 on Monday. Now, there are 8,177 patients under treatment.
Wardha: The district recorded 59 new cases out of total 587 test reports received on Monday, thus taking the caseload to 46,788. After the discharge of 345 in the day, total recoveries have reached 41,999, leaving 3,552 patients under treatment. Moreover, 12 deaths were reported in the day, which took the toll to 1,237. Day’s cases came from Wardha 38, Arvi 7, Hinganghat 6, Ashti 5 and Deoli 3.