Gondia reports new case after three weeks

Nagpur: Gondia district, which had not reported any new Covid-19 patient for almost three weeks, saw one case on Saturday. The patient comes from Gondia town.
Overall, Vidarbha reported 16 new cases, a double-digit increase for the fourth consecutive day. No death was reported in the last 24 hours. There were 11 recoveries on Saturday, highest in the last 4 days.
Now, the region’s caseload is 11,20,259, including 10,98,740 recoveries and 21,377 deaths. The recovery rate is little over 98% and case fatality rate is 1.9%.
Overall, 7,061 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, which means the test positivity rate is still under 0.2% which is very good indicator for the region.
Now, 109 patients are under treatment in 11 districts of Vidarbha. This number surpassed the 100-mark for the first time in last six days. This means, the number of new cases has increased, while the recoveries are low. This is expected post-festive season. However, the surge in cases is very low.
With Gondia losing its Zero Covid status, Bhandara and Washim are the only two districts with no active cases. Barring Nagpur (33), all other districts have less than 20 patients under-treatment.
Bhandara: The district conducted 204 tests and all came negative.
Gondia: One out of 127 tests came positive, taking the caseload to 41,226, including 40,517 recoveries.
Gadchiroli: 597 tests were conducted, and 1 tested positive in Gadchiroli. On the other hand, one patient recovered. Now, the district has 3 patients under treatment.
Washim: No new case was reported. No patient is under treatment in the district.
Akola: All 331 tests conducted in the last 24 hours returned negative. With no recoveries in the last 24 hours, the number of under-treatment patients remained unchanged at 11.
Buldhana: One out of 194 tests came positive. Caseload has reached 87,624, including 86,943 recoveries and 674 deaths. Seven patients are under treatment.
Wardha: Three people tested positive out of 312 reports and three patients were discharged on Saturday, taking the caseload to 49,416 and recoveries to 48,080. This leaves six patients under treatment. No new death was reported and the toll remained unchanged at 1,326.
Yavatmal: Though there were no deaths, there were four new patients on Saturday, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,787. There are currently nine patients under treatment. Of the 72,921 patients so far, 71,125, including one on Saturday, have recovered. There are 2,170 beds available for Covid patients.
Chandrapur: The number of active cases remained steady at 18 with one detection and one recovery on Saturday. There were no deaths. The caseload and total recoveries have inched up to 88,832 and 87,272 respectively. The toll is 1,543.
Amravati: There were no deaths nor any positive cases recorded in the district on Saturday.