PUNE: The number of people recovering from Covid-19 (1,612) continued to stay ahead of new infections (1,115) in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Tuesday, with the rural areas taking the lead in infections as well as discharges in the last 24 hours.
The rural and Cantonment areas together added 701 new patients while 796 recoveries, way ahead than the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal limits.
The sample testing in the region jumped to 17,348 on Tuesday from Monday’s 12,328.
The region has so far tested over 54.32 lakh samples.
Over 26 lakh tests have been conducted in the PMC limits, while the PCMC and rural parts have conducted over 14 lakh and 13 lakh tests, respectively.
A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that the region’s recovery tally increased to 10.15 lakh on Tuesday, while its positive caseload reached 10.41 lakh.
Meanwhile, 23 more patients succumbed to the infection in PMR on Tuesday.
Of these, the rural parts recorded 14 deaths, five patients died in the PMC limits and four in the PCMC areas.
Both Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal areas have been reporting single-digit deaths since the last one week.
With this, the region’s total deaths increased to 17,628 on Tuesday.