Over 3,000 recover in Pune Metropolitan Region, positivity rate drops to 8%

Pune: As many as 3,052 Covid-19 patients recovered and 1,836 new cases were registered in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Wednesday.
Both the municipal corporations of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, as well as the rural areas, registered new additions in three-digits.
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) areas added 467 new patients, while 372 fresh cases were diagnosed in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) limits. Areas in Pune rural and under the cantonment jurisdiction recorded 997 patients.
The rural areas of the district continued to record the highest number of recoveries. On Wednesday, 2,125 patients in the rural and cantonment limits were recovered. In the PMC areas, 651 patients were discharged from hospitals. In the PCMC limits, 271 patients were declared cured.
The region’s tally of recoveries increased to 9.76 lakh and the positive caseload reached to 10.17 lakh.
A report released by the district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that 60 patients succumbed to the infection on Wednesday in the region. The region’s active caseload further dropped to 23,514, the report stated.
On Wednesday, 22,778 samples were tested in the region. The day’s positivity rate dropped to 8.06%. About 8,871 samples were tested in the rural areas, 7,483 in PMC areas and 6,424 in the PCMC limits.
The region has so far tested 50.61 lakh samples for the infection. The PMC’s sample testing has crossed the 25 lakh mark. The PCMC has tested 13.26 lakh samples.