PUNE: The number of Covid-19 cases (1,199) exceeded recoveries (984) after almost a month-and-a-half in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Wednesday.
Both Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal areas, as well as the rural and Cantonment limits, added more patients than discharges in the last 24 hours.
While the PMC areas added 283 patients and 255 recoveries, the PCMC limits added 241 new cases and 94 discharges.
In the case of rural and Cantonment areas, 635 patients were declared cured as against 675 new cases.
As many as 18,509 samples were checked in the region on Wednesday.
The positivity rate for PMR stood at 6.4%.
The region’s tally of recoveries reached 10.16 lakh, while total positive caseload stood at 10.43 lakh.
A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that 21 more patients died due to the infection in the region on Wednesday.
These included 11 deaths from the rural areas, seven in the PMC limits and three from the PCMC areas.
The active caseslod in the region increased to 8,493 following the rise in positive cases.
A total of 5,499 patients were being treated at various hospitals and 2,994 patients were in home isolation.