Covid deaths under 5 in city, 1st time after Feb 22

Nagpur: The district reported under-500 cases for the second day in a row, while the city’s Covid fatality was at 93-day low at four on Tuesday. At 470, Covid cases in the district were lower than a day before, while deaths too declined to 25, which included 10 from rural and 11 from outside district.
On February 22, the city’s Covid toll was at four and the district’s 8 (including 2 from rural and 2 from outside district). After that, the fatalities kept rising and reached all-time high of 112 in the district on May 2. Most part of February, the city and even rural areas had reported deaths below five and on a couple of occasions the only fatalities reported were of patients belonging to other districts but succumbing in city hospitals.
As the district is witnessing decline in cases, availability of beds has increased due to which many patients from neighbouring districts and states are preferring healthcare facilities in Nagpur. Doctors said these patients are being brought quite late and in bad condition due to which their chances of survival are less. Some of them are also being transferred after over 10-day hospitalization in peri-urban areas or other districts.
In a promising indicator, fall in cases was reported from 14,145 tests in city and rural, which were 1,016 more than the previous day. This led to further decline of the test positivity rate for the day to 3.32%, slightly lower than Monday’s.
The district’s cases had plunged to a 100-day lowest tally of 482 cases on Monday. The city’s tally too was lowest in 105 days.
After a gap of some days, the cases from rural areas were on the higher side as compared to the city. Of the 470 cases, 246 were from rural and 213 from city and one from other district, which is again similar to the daily reporting before the second wave started in February.
The number of patients under treatment has come down to 10,848. Of the total under treatment, 2,866 are hospitalized or in Covid Care Centres.