This story is from May 25, 2020

24th death in Akola, 52 new cases in Vid, many from rural areas

24th death in Akola, 52 new cases in Vid, many from rural areas
Nagpur: A Covid-19 death was reported in Vidarbha for the fourth day in a row on Sunday when a 60-yr-old woman undergoing treatment at Akola GMCH from May 20 died. This was the 24 death in Akola, and 51st of Vidarbha region.
Apart from the death, Akola recorded 19 new confirmed positive cases, highest in Vidarbha for third consecutive day. Amravati – the second worst hit district after Akola — recorded 12 new cases.
With Nagpur (6), Chandrapur (6), Gondia (4), Bhandara (3), and Gadchiroli (2), Vidarbha completed half century of new cases for the fifth time in last 8 days. Total cases reached 1,247. All cases in Chandrapur, Gondia, Bhandara and Gadchiroli are returnees from Mumbai, Pune and other hotspots. They reside in rural areas of these districts.
Of the 11 districts in region, Yavatmal, Washim, Buldhana, and Wardha recorded no new case on Sunday. However, a labourer walking from Pune towards Chhattisgarh died in Wardha on Sunday. His swab samples were taken and reports are awaited.
With 15 patients, including a 5-year-old girl from Buldhana, and three police personnel from Nagpur, discharged from hospitals, total number of patients recovered of Covid-19 reached 766 in Vidarbha. The recovery rate is about 61.52%, way higher than state’s 30% and national 45%.
Sunday began with bad news from Akola, where a 60-yr-old woman from Malipura area – one of the hotspots – died of Covid-19. The woman had tested positive on May 20. Akola also recorded 19 new cases. Ten men were discharged from hospital, but asked to stay in institutional quarantine under observation for 24 hours.
A spike of 12 Covid-19 positive cases put Amravati district administration on high alert. They ordered micro planning in containment zones and listing of all chronic blood pressure and diabetes patients there, besides taking swabs of individuals down with fever for five or more days.

Guardian minister Yashomati Thakur held an emergency meeting with the administration. Collector Shailesh Naval toured all isolation centres, and ordered X-rays of all symptomatic cases.
A 45-year-old nurse at the Covid hospital here and a 5-year-old girl are among the 12 who tested positive for novel coronavirus on Sunday, taking the district’s count to 164, according to an official release.
The nurse, the 11th corona warrior and fourth from the hospital to contract the virus, had her swab taken when she was quarantined after being on duty for 10 days at the Covid hospital. Her swab tested positive today.
Besides the nurse, three members of a family from Habib Nagar, females aged 5 and 30, and a male aged 33, also tested positive Sunday morning. They were put in institutional quarantine after a 32-year-old male in the family tested positive on May 21. The fifth case of the day is also from Habib Nagar, a female aged 65, an official said. With four cases on Sunday, Habib Nagar now has eight cases, including two recovered cases.
In the evening, seven more tested positive. They included a 19-year-old from Masanganj, the hotspot’s 24th case; a man (30) and a woman (65) from Shiv Nagar, which has earlier given three cases; an 11-year-old girl from Al Hilal Colony, which reported a death on Saturday, and males aged 22 and 54m and a female aged 36 from Habib Nagar.
Amravati district’s count of 164 now includes 15 deaths, 76 recovered, 71 active cases and two referred to GMCH, Nagpur. “We received 171 reports today and 159 tested negative while 12 were positive,” Naval said.
In Chandrapur, six patients tested positive, taking the total to 21. Civil surgeon Dr CS Rathod said the new positive patients include a 25-year-old youth from village Varvat, a 25-year-old woman from Ghugus, a person (28) from Durgapur, and a 27-year-old male contact of positive patient from Chiroli. Their samples were collected on May 22 and reports arrived late on Saturday night. Those from Varvat and Durgapur had returned from Mumbai, while the Ghugus woman had come back from Pune.
Two more patients tested positive on Sunday. They include a 24-year-old youth from Balaji Ward in city. He had returned from Pune and was under home quarantine. His samples were taken after he developed symptoms, turned out positive. The other patient is mother of positive patient from Visapur and likely to have been infected from her son.
DEATH TRAP
May 21 | 68-yr-old died in Akola
May 22 | 2 deaths in Akola, 1 in Amravati
May 23 | 2 deceased tested +ve in Buldhana, 1 died in Amravati
May 24 | 60-yr-old woman died in Akola
End of Article
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA