NAGPUR: Along with positive cases, Covid-19 deaths are also on decline in the district.
There were five deaths in the district on Wednesday, which was the lowest in a day in 101 days.
As per data of district civil surgeon, two of the five deceased were residents of the city.
There were no deaths for third consecutive day in rural areas.
Thus, actual deaths from the district were only two.
Remaining three deceased were residents of other districts, who tested positive and succumbed to the disease while undergoing treatment in hospitals in the district.
Before this, five deaths were recorded on February 28.
The second wave of the pandemic started in third week of February, with fatalities rising from third week of March.
Second wave was highly contagious and virulent.
Highest number of daily deaths (113) were registered in the district on April 19.
The second wave started to recede from beginning of May.
On Wednesday, the number of positive cases was 81 for the second consecutive day in the district.
But daily test positivity rate (TPR) reduced on Wednesday.
The 81 persons tested positive from total 8,296 tests on Tuesday for TPR of 0.97%.
Tests increased to 10,635 on Wednesday.
Therefore, TPR declined to 0.76%.
Similarly, TPR of the city dropped to 0.54% as 42 came positive from 7,822 tests on Wednesday.
TPR was 0.84% on Tuesday.
TPR of rural areas slightly increased to 1.28% with 36 testing positive as against 2,813 tests.
A day ago, TPR was 1.16%.
Active cases further dropped to 2,676 in the district on Wednesday.
Ratio of active cases was just 0.56% of total positive cases (4,76,088).
Also, 322 patients recovered in the district on Wednesday.
Recoveries are more than new cases for 41 consecutive days for the first time in the 15-month-long pandemic.