Thirty cases in Nagpur lowest after 342 days, weekly test positive rate below 1% first time

NAGPUR: The district on Monday registered 30 Covid-19 cases, which was the lowest daily tally after 342 days. It is also the first time cases have dipped so much after peak of first wave. Weekly test positivity rate (TPR) declined below 1% for the first time in the pandemic and case fatality rate (CFR) increased to 7.7%, which is highest so far in 15-month-long pandemic.
As per data of district civil surgeon, of the 6,929 tests conducted in 24 hours, 30 came positive for TPR of 0.43%. Previously, 26 cases were registerd on July 6 last year which was before peak of first wave in August and September.
The cases in city dipped to 18, which is the lowest in a day after 328 days. The lowest before this were 16 cases reported on July 20 last year.
In city 6,065 tests were conducted and 18 came positive for TPR of 0.3%.
On Monday, there were no deaths in Nagpur rural. The first time zero deaths were reported from rural areas in second wave was on June 5. Since then, there were no fatalities in rural on six days.
As against 1,640 cases in the first week of June, the cases dropped to 519 in the second week. Tests were 66,968 in second week and 79,132 in first week. Daily average was 9,567 in second week and 11,305 in first week.
Weekly TPR was 0.77%, which was lowest so far in the pandemic. Weekly TPR was 2.07% in first week of June. TPR of May was 12.87% and 27.89% in April.
There were 40 deaths in second week of June and CFR was 7.7%. The fatalities were less compared with that registered in first week (75). But CFR surged due to big drop in TPR but no steep decline in deaths as compared to cases.
CFR was 4.57% in first week of June, 2.26% in May and 1.26% in April.