PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region inched closer to having 10 lakh Covid-19 recoveries on Sunday — 1,611 people were discharged in the region, pushing the total number of recoveries to 9,99,826.
The region is likely to cross 10 lakh recoveries on Sunday.
Also, on Saturday, 1,421 people tested positive for the virus across the region.
This pushed PMR’s progressive caseload to 10,30,863, as per the daily report issued by the district health office.
Twenty-six people succumbed to the contagion on Saturday.
With this, the region’s death toll increased to 17,419.
As of Sunday, there were 13,709 active cases in PMR — 8,295 patients were being treated at various hospitals, while 5,414 people had opted for home quarantine.
As many as 18,820 samples were tested in the region on Saturday for a positivity rate of 7.55%, the report added.
PMR: 1,421 more test Covid +ve, 1,611 recover; 26 succumb
