Zero Covid death in Nagpur dist on Sunday, 3rd time in 8 days

Nagpur: The district registered zero Covid death for the third time in last eight days on Sunday. The district’s test positivity rate (TPR) also continued well below 1%. Still, in view of the Delta-plus variant threat, various restrictions will come into effect in the district from Monday.
As per data of district civil surgeon, there were no fatalities due to novel coronavirus in city, rural and also from other districts on Sunday.
Earlier, this had happened for the first time after 384 days on June 20 and second time on June 25. Previously, it happened on July 6, 2020, which was before the peak of the first wave. The district had faced first wave peak in August and September last year.
On Sunday, 22 persons were found positive from 8,538 tests for a TPR of 0.26%. Weekly TPR as per RT-PCR tests is being considered for relaxations and restrictions. The district’s weekly TPR from June 19 to 25 as per RT-PCR tests was 0.8%.
The state government had allowed total normalcy if weekly TPR was below 5%. Couple of days ago, the government had revised guidelines and asked all districts to follow restrictions of Level-3 if the weekly TPR is below 10%.
Therefore, coaching classes will shut from Monday. Timings of essential, non-essential shops, private offices, gyms etc will be reduced from existing 8pm to 4pm. Restaurants and bars will have to close at 4pm as against presently allowed 11pm deadline. Attendance in marriage ceremonies and funeral will go down along with other restrictions.
Also, 69 patients recovered in the district on Sunday. Recoveries are more than new cases for 59 consecutive days.
Active cases dropped to 426 leaving majority of beds in Covid hospitals vacant.