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Nagpur restrictions, no Vidarbha district that adds new covid sidewalks

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Nagpur: Though Nagpur district has further imposed restrictions on evening walks, evening food delivery and sports activities from Monday onwards, no other district in Vidarbha has introduced such strict measures.
With no new notification issued in any of the districts, Level 3 restrictions will continue for one more week.
However, Covid situation is improving every day.
On Sunday, the region reported 184 new cases, lowest in the month of July so far.
On the other hand, 310 patients recovered in the day.
In Gondia, 789 tests were conducted in the day, and not a single of them turned out to be Covid positive.
Bhandara 2, Chandrapur 7, Yavatmal 4 reported new cases in single digits, while other districts reported less than 20 cases each.
Only Buldhana reported 59 new cases, which continued the trend of marginal spike in the district for fourth day in a row.
Three deaths, including 2 in Nagpur and 1 in Gadchiroli, were reported in Vidarbha.
Overall, recovery rate has surpassed the 98%-mark.
With 9 districts, including all 5 in Amravati division, reporting no Covid death, the present situation in Vidarbha indicates that the infection has reached the baseline and the region deserves some relaxations from the restrictions.
With more recoveries and fewer new cases, the number of under treatment patients in the region has gone down to 1,524.
With many of these patients under home isolation, the beds in most hospitals are vacant.
Covid Care Centres started at public places are lying vacant even in rural areas.
Total 22,590 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the region.
This number is less than daily average of 30,000.
But as markets close at 4 pm, the number of on-the-spot tests across the region has also dipped.
As the number of new patients is going down, contact tracing too has limited scope.
Gondia: Sunday saw no new Covid case or death, for the first time since the onset of the second wave in the district.
Four patients recovered in the day.
Now, the district has total 41,152 cases, 40,409 recoveries and 43 patients under treatment with 26 of them in home isolation.
Gondia’s recovery rate is above 98%.
Yavatmal: On the 17th consecutive day, Yavatmal recorded no death which helped the toll remain at 1,789.
The administration has received 602 test reports of which 7 were found positive.
At present there are 35 active positive patients undergoing treatment in the hospitals.
Of the 72,744 positive patients, 70,923 including 15 on Sunday have recovered.
The test positivity rate is 10.66% and death rate is 2.46%.
The daily positivity rate is 0.55%.
Amravati: Even as there was a spike of 40 new cases, Sunday posted no Covid death.
While the caseload reached 96,146, the toll remained at 1,555.
Recoveries of 47 patients took the total to 94,226.
This left 365 active cases under treatment.
Chandrapur: There was no casualty and just four new cases registered on Sunday.
The day witnessed 21 recoveries leaving 179 active cases during the day.
Covid total remained stable at 1,532 while caseload and total recoveries climbed to 84,734 and 83,023 respectively.
Wardha: The district saw 13 cases on Sunday taking the caseload to 49,250.
No death was reported and toll stayed put at 1,322.
Five patients were discharged and recoveries reached 47,871 while 57 are active positive under treatment in the district.
On Sunday, 900 test reports were received while 12 from Wardha and one from Selu tested positive.
Bhandara: Total 859 tests were conducted in the district and 2 of them turned out to be positive on Sunday.
Now, the caseload has reached 59,487 with 58,329 of them recovered.
Bhandara’s recovery rate also surpassed 98% mark on Sunday.
Now, only 29 patients are under treatment in the district, which is lowest in Vidarbha region.
Gadchiroli: The district reported death of a 70-year-old man from Subhashgram Chamorshi, which took the Covid toll to 741.
Out of 546 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, 18 were positive, which took the caseload to 30,305.
With 19 going home after discharge in the day, total 29,444 patients have recovered.
Gadchiroli’s recovery rate is 97.16%.
Total 120 patients are under treatment.
Akola: The district reported 10 new cases out of total 1,109 tests done in the last 24 hours.
No death was reported while 30 patients recovered.
Now, Akola has total 57,630 cases, 56,257 recoveries and 1,128 deaths reported till date.
As on date, 245 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: The marginal spike that the district has been reporting from July 1 continued even on Sunday with 59 out of 2,714 tests giving positive results.
Now, total Covid-19 cases reached 86,940 in Buldhana.
However, a good number of patients are recovering too.
Total 96 patients recovered on Sunday taking the recovery count to 86,130.
Now, 147 patients are under treatment.
Washim: The district reported 12 new cases, 33 recoveries and no Covid casualty on Sunday.
Now, out of total 41,478 cases reported in the district till date, 40,717 have recovered.
Now, 140 patients are under treatment.

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