Fatalities come down to 7 in region, Maharashtra reports 8,602 fresh infections

PUNE: The number of daily Covid-19 fatalities dropped to four-month low of seven in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Wednesday.
It was on March 2 when five people had succumbed to the infection in the region.

Besides, the Covid-19 recoveries (1,482) continued to stay above the daily cases (1,185) in PMR on Wednesday.
A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that the Pimpri Chinchwad and rural areas recorded more recoveries than new cases. As many as 869 patients were declared cured in the rural areas in the last 24 hours, followed by the Pimpri Chinchwad municipal limits (331) and the Pune civic areas (277).
With this, the tally of positive cases in the region has increased above 10.66 lakh, while its total recoveries have reached 10.39 lakh. An increase in discharges kept the total of active patients in the region below 10,000. The tally reduced to 9,632 on Wednesday evening.
Meanwhile, the health authorities in the region checked 21,589 samples for the infection on Wednesday. The rural areas and PMC limits checked over 8,000 samples each, while 4,623 tests were conducted in the Pimpri Chinchwad areas. Maharashtra reported 8,602 cases against 7,243 cases on Tuesday, taking the Covid caseload to 61.8 lakh and fatalities to 1,26,390. Fatalities in the state reported a dip — 170 against 196 on Tuesday.