This story is from May 20, 2020

Gondia, Washim, Wardha: Ccases coming from all parts of Vid now

Gondia, Washim, Wardha: Ccases coming from all parts of Vid now
Nagpur: As expected, returnees from Covid-19 hotspot zones are turning out to be coronavirus positive. On Tuesday, 33 cases were reported from Vidarbha and 10 of them were of the travellers. Apart from the red zoned Akola (18) and Amravati (4), cases were reported from Washim (5), Wardha (1) and Gadchiroli (1).
Gondia, which has been Covid-free for the last 37 days, reported two new cases on Tuesday — both from rural areas of Amgaon and Arjuni Morgaon tehsils.
A 45-year-old man, who returned from Mumbai, tested positive in Nagpur, which was the only new case in the city reported on Tuesday. Yavatmal reported one positive case late on Tuesday night.
Akola, worst-hit in Vidarbha, recorded two deaths on Tuesday. A 68-year old man, a resident of Akola’s Ramdaspeth who had died of respiratory infection on May 16 tested positive on Tuesday. Second death was of a 62-year-old man admitted to GMCH Akola since May 15. He had tested positive on May 17. A patient of hypertension and diabetes, he died during treatment on Tuesday evening. With this, Akola now accounts for 20 deaths out of total 43 Covid-19 casualties across Vidarbha. Including one of the two deceased persons, 18 new suspects tested positive on Tuesday in Akola, while 23 were discharged after recovery.
Neighbouring Washim district was almost Covid-free as two of the three patients there have recovered and one died. But on Tuesday, five new confirmed positive cases were reported from Washim. A six-member family which had returned from Mumbai on May 16 was in institutional quarantine there. Out of the six members, five tested positive on Tuesday. Result of one family member is pending. Authorities told TOI that the family was instantly quarantined as soon as they entered Washim, eliminating the chances of they coming in contact with others.
Gadchiroli also reported one case, that of a migrant labour returning from Mumbai. In Wardha, 52-year-old migrant worker tested Covid-19 positive. The migrant labour, who was travelling in a truck for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, had fallen ill on May 17 near Sarwadi in Karanja tahsil. He was admitted to general hospital, Wardha. His report came positive on Tuesday. He is undergoing treatment at Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital, Sawangi.

In Yavatmal, a middle-aged woman from Hudi village in Pusad tehsil tested positive. She is among the close contacts of one of the positive patients reported on May 18. This indicates local spread of Covid-19 in rural Vidarbha.
In Amravati, Masanganj continued to be a real Covid-19 hotspot in the region while Ratanganj emerged as a new locality to get infected by novel coronavirus which gave four positive cases on Tuesday taking district’s Covid count to 115. While two of the four cases have come from Masanganj in the form of males aged 45 and 50, Ratanganj too reported its first case when a 38-year-old male tested positive today. Tajnagar, which had reported 13 cases with two deaths and 10 recovered persons till yesterday, posted its 14th case on Tuesday after a hiatus of four days in the form of a 60-year-old female.
A total of 568 Bihar-bound stranded labourers in Amravati division left for Barauni via a Shramik Special train that rolled out of Amravati railway station on Tuesday afternoon. The 24-coach train also picked up around 700 labourers from Nagpur.
Good news came for Chandrapur as one of the two patients is on the road to recovery. The patient completed 14-days of isolation on Tuesday. His 14th-day swab samples tested negative. He is likely to get discharged on Wednesday.
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