NAGPUR: Even as revised Covid restrictions (Level 3) will come into effect in all 11 districts in Vidarbha from Monday, the region reported 230 new cases and 4 deaths on Sunday.
The day’s Covid casualty is lowest after the peak of the second wave.
Buldhana, Amravati, Chandrapur and Wardha reported 1 death each while all other districts reported zero Covid fatality on Sunday.
The number of new cases was 230, including a spike of 84 cases in Buldhana where a village Virpangra in Lonar tehsil alone reported 36 patients.
Following this, entire administration is on its toes.
All other districts, including Nagpur, reported less than 40 cases with Yavatmal, Bhandara, Gondia and Wardha reporting less than 10 cases in the day.
Recovery count reduced to 360, but it had no major impact on the test positivity rate as new cases were even lower.
Now, Vidarbha has total 10,95,773 cases and 10,73,067 of them have recovered for the recovery rate of 98%.
Number of daily tests went down to 27,554 against last week’s daily average of 30,000.
Districts like Bhandara, Yavatmal, Wardha have reduced the number of tests significantly as the new cases are low and their contact tracing is now limited.
Still, as per the state government’s new directives, the districts must increase testing from June 28 onwards.
Number of under-treatment patients was 2,544 on Sunday.
Majority of these patients are in home isolation.
Oxygen beds occupancy is very less across the region.
Amravati: A spike of 36 cases and one death took the district’s Covid caseload to 95,883 and toll to 1,550, respectively, on Sunday.
Seventy-two patients staged recovery in the day, taking the total to 93,832.
The recovery rate is now 97.86%.
This left 501 patients under treatment.
Chandrapur: Ten new cases and lone death were reported on Sunday taking the Covid caseload to 84,644 and toll to 1,527, respectively.
The day also witnessed 54 recoveries taking the total to 82,731.
This has left 386 patients under treatment.
Yavatmal: The district reported no Covid death on Sunday for the 11th consecutive day and hence the toll remained unchanged at 1,789.
The administration received 519 test reports of which 8 were positive.
Currently 52 patients are undergoing treatment in hospitals.
Of the 72,715 patients detected so far, 70,877 including 10 on Sunday have recovered.
The test positivity rate is 10.71% and death rate is 2.46%.
The daily positivity rate is 1.54 %.
Wardha: A 45-year-old woman from city died due to coronavirus during treatment on Sunday, taking the toll to 1,321, while 9 new cases were detected and 20 were discharged in the day.
The caseload increased to 49,203 and recoveries to 47,816, leaving 66 under treatment.
Of the 946 test reports received on Sunday, 5 from Hinganghat and 4 from Wardha were found positive.
Bhandara: Out of 642 tests conducted in the last 24 hours in Bhandara, 5 were found positive while 8 patients recovered from Covid-19 on Sunday.
Case count reached 59,469, while 58,280 of them have recovered for a 98% recovery rate.
No death was reported in th day and 63 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: With six new cases and four recoveries reported on Sunday, the district’s caseload has reached 41,116 and 40,369 of them recovered.
No death was reported in the day.
Total 2,786 tests were conducted in Gondia in last 24 hours.
As on date, 48 patients are under treatment, of which 31 in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: Total 670 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the district, out of them 18 were found positive which took the caseload to 30,212.
With 34 recoveries on Sunday, total 29,298 have defeated Covid till date for a 97% recovery rate.
No death was reported in Gadchiroli.
Total 190 patients are under treatment.
Akola: The district conducted 1,240 tests in the last 24 hours, out of which 12 were positive.
No death was reported in the district for the second day in a row on Sunday.
The Covid toll is unchanged at 1,126.
Total 57,568 cases of Covid-19 have reported till date and 56,020 of them recovered.
Now, 422 patients are under treatment.
Washim: Twenty new Covid-19 patients were detected on Sunday, while 23 recovered in the district.
No death was reported.
Now, the district has total 41,380 cases, including 40,494 recoveries, 617 deaths and 268 patients under treatment.
Buldhana: In all 84 new cases were reported in the district out of 2,750 tests on Sunday.
The number of cases, however, has gone up in the district for the last 4 days.
On the other hand, 50 patients recovered in the day.
A death was also reported which took the Covid toll to 660.
Now, Buldhana has 122 patients under treatment.
This number was under 100 three days ago.
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