No Covid death in Vidarbha after 2 days, cases down too

Nagpur: Vidarbha region reported its fourth ‘zero Covid death’ day in 10 days of August on Tuesday. The number of daily tests also increased with the beginning of new week, but not the number of new cases.
Out of nearly 14,000 tests done in the last 24 hours in Vidarbha region, 34 were positive. The overall test positivity rate went below 0.30%, which is an encouraging sign. 60 patients recovered, taking the aggregate to 10,96,901 as against 11,18,723 cases. This pegs the region’s recovery rate at over 98%.
On Tuesday, Bhandara, Wardha, Gondia and Washim districts reported zero new cases. Yavatmal (1), Akola (2), Nagpur, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli (5 each), Buldhana (6) reported single-digit cases. Amravati (10) was the only district to report a double-digit increase in cases.
Meanwhile, 23 patients recovered from Nagpur. Now, only 144 patients are under-treatment in the district. Overall, in Vidarbha, 469 patients are under treatment. This is the lowest number of active cases in the last 13 months.
Daily test count, which dropped to 8,700 on Monday, returned to nearly 14,000 on Tuesday. Most of the districts in Vidarbha are holding public events like ‘wild vegetable festivals’ and schools are running in rural areas, following Covid protocols. On Tuesday, Gondia district allowed the opening of livestock market in regular timings as the season of cattle-selling has started. However, no further relaxations were offered.
Amravati: With 10 new cases and as many recoveries, the district’s caseload went to 96,585 and total recoveries to 94,951. There was no Covid death. This left 72 active cases.
Yavatmal: With no death on Tuesday, the toll remained unchanged at 1,787. The district has one positive patient hailing from Yavatmal city and there are three recoveries also. Currently there are eight active positive patients undergoing treatment in the hospitals. Of the 72,817 positive patients, 71,022 have recovered.
Wardha: The active caseload of district is below 10 mark. After four were discharged on Tuesday, 9 patients are undergoing treatment in district while no new case or death was reported. The total caseload is 49,381, recoveries are 48,047 and toll is 1,325. On Tuesday, 448 test reports were received.
Chandrapur: Tuesday witnessed no Covid death in the district after reporting deaths for two consecutive days. There were eight recoveries against five new detections, leaving 73 active patients under treatment. Covid toll remained stable at 1,537, while caseload and total recoveries inched up to 88,548 and 86,938 respectively during the day.
Bhandara: The district conducted 467 tests and none of them were positive. On the other hand, one patient who was under treatment recovered, which again brought the number of under-treatment patients in Bhandara to zero.
Gondia: With no new case, no recovery and no death — it was a zero Covid day for Gondia, where 379 tests were conducted in last 24 hours. Now, two patients are under treatment. Recovery rate is 98.3% here.
Gadchiroli: Five new patients and five recoveries on Tuesday kept the number of under-treatment patients unchanged at 34 in Gadchiroli. Out of 30,642 cases reported till date, 29,863 have recovered at 97.46% recovery rate.
Washim: Zero new cases and two recoveries marked Tuesday in Washim. This reduced the number of under-treatment patients to 15 in the district.
Buldhana: As many as 1,489 tests were conducted in Buldhana in last 24 hours and only six of them were positive. With three recoveries reported on Tuesday; 86,603 out of 87,338 Covid patients so far have recovered. Buldhana still has 63 patients under treatment.
Akola: Two out of 830 tests were positive in Akola on Tuesday. Two patients recovered. This kept the number of active cases unchanged at 49.