Maharashtra: With nine deaths, region reports lowest daily toll in 130 days

NAGPUR: Vidarbha on Thursday registered nine deaths due to Covid-19, the lowest daily toll in 130 days. The region’s daily toll was under 10 for the first time since February 7 when four districts had collectively reported five deaths.
On Thursday, two deaths each were reported from Nagpur, Amravati, Buldhana and Washim, while one patient succumbed to the disease in Akola.
Bhandara, Wardha, Gondia and Yavatmal didn’t see any Covid death for yet another day while Chandrapur and Gadchiroli too got respite from fatalities.
As against 405 new cases, there were 835 recoveries in the region. The day’s highest cases were 88 which came from Amravati while the lowest were three from Gondia. The daily testing too came down to 29,243, which is nearly half of what was being done around a month back.
Meanwhile, reconciliation by Wardha district administration decreased Vidarbha’s caseload and recoveries. Wardha’s case tally reduced by 3,611 cases and recoveries by 4,891 following the exercise. There was no change in deaths. The administration has discounted all out of district patients. Earlier, it was counting out of district recovered patients in its tally but not the positive cases.
Yavatmal: District recorded no death on the second consecutive day on Thursday which kept toll at 1,789. Yavatmal recorded 6 new positive patients which is the lowest in the pandemic. The administration received 998 test reports. Of the 72,606 positive patients 70,601 have recovered. The test positivity rate is 10.86% and the death rate is 2.46 % while daily positivity rate is down to 0.62%.
Chandrapur: No Covid fatality was registered after a gap of 113 days on Thursday and toll remained at 1,511. It was back on February 23, when Chandrapur had zero fatality last time. There were 44 detections while 52 recoveries registered during the day leaving 785 active patient under treatment. The Covid total has climbed to 84,408, while total recoveries amount to 82,112.
Amravati: A spike of 88 cases and two deaths took the district’s caseload to 95,382 and toll to 1,536 on Thursday. With 113 getting discharged from the hospital, the recoveries reached 92,693 for a rate of 97.18. This left just 1153 active cases under treatment. A 63-year-old man from Daryapur and a 70-year-old woman from Chandur Bazaar were the casualties of the day.
Wardha: In the distrct, 13 patients tested positive for coronavirus out of 1,123 test reports on Thursday, taking the total to 49,071. Meanwhile, 35 got discharged after recovery and total recoveries are 47,465 leaving 290 active positive. No death was reported and toll remained at 1,316.
Gadchiroli: No Covid death was reported and the toll remains at 737. The district reported 26 new cases and 57 recoveries. Now, there are 280 active cases.
Washim: The district reported two Covid deaths. The daily cases decreased to 29 while 65 patients recovered. The toll is 612 now and 471 are active cases.
Bhandara: The district reported eight cases but no Covid death, leaving the toll at 1,055 since June 4. There were 14 recoveries during the day and now 123 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: The district did not report any Covid death but three new cases were detected. There were five recoveries too. Number of patients under treatment is 101.
Buldhana: The district witnessed 53 new Covid cases and two deaths. According to official data, the district reported 61 recoveries. This left 109 active cases.
Akola: The district reported 102 recoveries against 61 cases and one Covid death. The active cases are 1,153.