Cases remain under 100, deaths under 10 for 3rd day in a row in Nagpur district

NAGPUR: The district’s new Covid cases and deaths were below 100 and 10 for the third day in a row on Thursday. At 91, the cases increased by 10 after remaining at 81 for two days. Over 100 more tests were done on Thursday as compared to Wednesday, as per the civil surgeon’s data.
The Covid fatalities rose to 10 from 5 a day before. Of these, just one was from rural, 5 from city and four deceased patients were residents of other districts. Among the new cases, 49 were from the city and 38 from rural while 4 from outside the district.
The continued fall in daily cases has ensured the district continues to enjoy level-1 status of the unlock guidelines issued by the state government. As per the guidelines, the district needs to maintain less than 25% bed occupancy and under 5% test positivity rate. As on date, the ratio is far less than this, keeping the district safe from any threat of movement restrictions.
Such has been the drop in hospitalization that several hospitals have resumed their regular services and shut down Covid facilities.
The district now has just 2,356 active cases. Of these, less than 500 patients are in admission. The load on government and civic-run hospitals has dramatically reduced. Just a month back, the district was falling short of beds, medical oxygen and even life saving medicines due to the whopping caseload.
Now, only the three medical colleges and a couple of private hospitals have admission figures in double digits while many don’t have any patient.
Probably for the first time, no one tested positive in 1,743 rapid antigen tests (RAT) while three public labs – AIIMS, Neeri and RTMNU – had positive cases in single digits against a large number of tests. In private labs, 56 tested positive against 4,888 samples.