PUNE: The number of people recovering from Covid-19 continued to outpace daily cases in the Pune Metropolitan Region.
On Thursday, the region reported 1,835 recoveries against 1,295 fresh cases.
This pushed the total number of recoveries in the region to 9,96,363, while the progressive caseload — the total of number of cases detected so far — increased to 10,28,075, as per the daily report issued by the district health officer.
The number of active cases too continued to drop.
On Sunday, there were 14,341 active cases in the region — 8,003 people were being treated in hospitals, while 6,338 patients had opted for home isolation.
As has been the case these past few weeks, the rural areas added the highest daily cases, at 631.
Pune Municipal Corporation reported 261 cases, while 244 patients were added in Pimpri Chinchwad.
Thirty-one people succumbed to the contagion across the region on Sunday.
Pune: Daily recoveries higher than new infections
