Pune: Recoveries continue to exceed fresh infections

PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Tuesday recorded 1,065 Covid-19 recoveries as against 946 new cases, bringing down the region’s tally of active cases to 9,326.

The rural and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) areas recorded more recoveries, while the Pune municipal limits added more patients than those discharged.
As many as 268 patients were added in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits in the last 24 hours as against 232 recoveries. The discharges in the rural and Cantonment areas stood at 558 against 460 new cases. With this the region’s tally of recoveries increased above 10.22 lakh on Tuesday evening, while the total caseload reached 10.49 lakh.
As many as 15,651 samples were tested in the region on Tuesday.
The rural and Cantonment areas checked over 6,400 samples, while the PMC and PCMC areas conducted 5,362 and 3,793 tests, respectively. The region recorded a positivity rate of 6% on Tuesday.
A report by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that 20 more patients succumbed to the infection in the region on Tuesday. While 11 patients died in the rural areas, five patients succumbed to the infection in the PMC areas and four in PCMC limits. The region has so far recorded 17,889 deaths due to the Covid-19 infection.
Among the active caseload, as many as 5,326 patients were being treated at various hospitals and 4,000 were in home isolation.