PUNE: Despite a slight drop, the number of daily recoveries continued to outstrip fresh Covid-19 cases in Pune Metropolitan Region on Saturday.
More than 2,000 people were discharged, while 1,555 tested positive for the contagion.
This pushed the region’s positive caseload to 10,22,051, while the total number of recoveries increased to 9,85,949.
Pune Municipal Corporation reported 380 new cases and 641 recoveries, while 224 people tested positive and 233 people were discharged in Pimpri Chinchwad civic limits.
The rest of the region — the rural belt, municipal councils, and cantonments — continued to account for the highest daily cases and recoveries, at 951 and 1,101, respectively.
Forty-five patients succumbed to the contagion in the region on Saturday.
Of these, 18 fatalities were in PMC limits, while 16 people died in PCMC areas.
Eleven people breathed their last in the rest of the region.
This pushed the region’s Covid-19 death toll to 17,135.
As of Saturday, there were 19,136 active cases in the region — 10,931 patients were being treated at various hospitals, while 8,205 people were under home isolation.
Nearly 20,000 samples (19,988) were tested in PMR on Saturday, pushing the total number of tests to 51,29,177.