19 new cases in Yavatmal, 7th death in Amravati, first +ve in Bhandara

NAGPUR: Vidarbha continues to record double digit increase in the number of confirmed positive cases of Covid-19. With 27 new cases on Monday, the total number of cases in region reached 275. Bhandara district, which was in the green zone till Sunday, recorded its first case on Monday. Buldhana recorded three new cases while Nagpur recorded one.
Yavatmal, for the third consecutive day, reported the most with 19 new cases, taking the count to 79.Earlier, 20 suspects had tested positive on Saturday and 16 on Sunday.
Amravati reported three cases including a 72-yr-old deceased man, who tested positive for Covid-19 post death. This is seventh death in Amravati and 10th in Vidarbha.
On the other hand, total eight patients recovered and were discharged in Vidarbha taking the number of recovered patients to 69.
With 10 patients recovered and discharged, the Government Medical College in Yavatmal now has 69 positive patients in its isolation ward.
Addressing media, district guardian minister Sanjay Rathod said that 305 persons were admitted in the isolation wards of GMC Yavatmal on Monday. “In the last 24 hours, only three persons were admitted and 32 swab samples were sent to Nagpur on Monday. We are still waiting 102 test reports,” he said.
District collector MD Singh said that he has issued an order on Monday to enhance the containment areas. “The new areas are Chapman Wadi, Tarpura, Shinde Nagar, Weekly Market area, Alkabir Nagar, Vidarbha Housing Society, Shubhamkar Road and Sudarshan Nagar. There is restriction on movement beyond 3kms. It is in addition to the areas under wards 10 and 20 of the municipal council.” He added, “Of the 1,021 swab samples sent to Nagpur, 988 have tested negative.”
There are six hotspots in the district — three in the city, two in Babhulgaon and one in Ner where the Tablighis visited and stayed before they tested positive. The 69 active cases in Yavatmal include 30 females and 39 males. One of them is a child and another a man above 80 years. However, nobody is on ventilator.
One of the women is a cook in the police mess from where over 300 policemen are provided food. Now, all personnel in the police headquarters are kept under home quarantine.
After testing negative, 331 persons have been discharged from the isolation wards after testing negative.
Dean Dr RP Singh, Covid-19 coordinator and ex-dean Dr Milind Kamble and civil surgeon Dr Tarangthushar Warey could not give satisfactory answers to the media’s queries about the cleanliness, drinking water supply, food served to the patients admitted in the isolation wards.
Rathod has repeatedly asked the doctor trio to reply to the queries. He has warned them of stringent action if they fail to rectify the lapses and improve the system.
In the TOI report published on April 26 regarding causes behind spurt in Covid-19 cases in Yavatmal, it had come to fore that it was due to laxity of health department officials.
Meanwhile, municipal chief Kanchantai Chaudhari handed over a check for Rs51,000 to CM’s Covid-19 relief fund on Monday.