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Nagpur dist 4th in state to record over 9k Covid-19 fatalities

Nagpur: The district is at fourth place among 35 in the state to register over 9,000 Covid-19 deaths.
The state government has done reconciliation for fatalities in last few days but it still shows less number of deaths as compared to data of district civil surgeon (CS).
The district continues to witness dip in number of positive cases.
Of the 9,386 persons who were tested, 75 came positive on Saturday — test positivity rate of 0.8%.
Of them, 27 cases were from the city, 45 from rural and three from other districts.
The cases in district were lowest in a day after 326 days.
There were 68 cases on July 20 last year.
As per CS data, the district recorded six fatalities on Saturday, of which one from city and two from rural.
Three deceased were residents of other districts who tested positive here and succumbed to the disease while undergoing treatment in hospitals situated in the district.
The cumulative toll of district increased to 9,001 on Saturday.
Of the total fatalities, 5,286 deceased were residents of the city and 2,305 were from rural areas — 7,591 deceased were residents of the district.
Remaining 1,410 deceased were from other districts and died while undergoing treatment in hospitals situated in the district.
Mumbai, Pune and Thane are other three districts having over 9,000 deaths due to Covid-19 in the state.
Mumbai has the highest 15,097 fatalities, followed by Pune (14,803) and Thane (9,600).
Population of Nashik district is more than Nagpur district.
There are two municipal corporations in Nashik district.
Nashik district has reported 5,714 deaths, which are 3,287 less than Nagpur district.
When it comes to the data of state’s public health department (PHD), Nagpur district has seen 7,599 deaths, which are 1,402 less when compared with data of CS.
There have been discrepancies in data of CS and PHD since August last year.
The PHD has reportedly started reconciliation of deaths of all districts from May 17.
As per PHD, fatalities in Nagpur district were 6,154 on May 16.
The number of deaths were revised to 7,599 on June 12.
As per data of CS, 451 deaths were registered in the district between May 17 and June 12.
Thus, PHD has added 994 more deaths to its data.

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