PUNE: The daily addition of Covid-19 cases in PMR dropped to three-digits (837) on Monday, with PMC adding 177 new cases, followed by PCMC (206) and rural and cantonment areas (454).
The daily testing, however, dropped to 15,990 on Monday.
The day’s positivity rate for the region was 5.23%.
The rural and Cantonment areas tested 6,690 samples, followed by 4775 in the Pune Municipal Corproration (PMC) and 4,525 in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) limits.
A report released by the district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that 1,719 patients were discharged on Monday in the region.
The report added that the region reported 37 casualties due to the infection on Monday.
As many as 15 patients died in the PMC limits, 10 people succumbed to the infection in the PCMC areas and 12 fatalities were reported from the rural areas.
The region’s death tally increased to 17,208 till Monday evening.
The region so far has tested 51.63 lakh samples, of which over 25.43 tests have been conducted in the PMC limits and 13.54 lakh in the PCMC.
As many as 12.65 lakh samples have been tested in the rural and Cantonment areas.
The tally of active cases in the region reached to 17,170 on Monday evening.
As many as 9,941 patients were being treated at various hospitals and 7,279 Covid positive people were in home isolation.