Covid-19: Daily infections drop to 817 in Pune Metropolitan Region; 14 patients succumb

PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) added 817 new Covid-19 cases as against 973 recoveries on Monday.
A drop in sample testing pulled down fresh cases in PMR, with the PMC areas adding 189 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, while the PCMC limits added (204) and the rural areas reporting 418 new infections.
As many as 14,854 samples were checked in the region in the 24 hours ending Monday evening as against Sunday’s sample testing tally of 18,870. The PMC and PCMC areas conducted over 4,000 tests, while the testing in the rural areas stayed above 5,800. The region has so far tested over 58 lakh samples.
A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that the region’s tally of recoveries increased to 10.36 lakh on Monday evening, while its total positive caseload reached 10.64 lakh.
On Monday, both Pune and Pmpri Chinchwad municipal limits as well as the rural areas recorded more recoveries than fresh cases.
Fourteen more patients died in the region on Monday, taking its death toll to 18,107. While four patients succumbed to the infection in the PMC limits on Monday, three deaths were recorded in the PCMC areas and seven in the rural parts.
The tally of active patients in PMR reached 10,403 on Monday evening, including 5,802 patients being treated at various Covid hospitals.