Patient dies on 14th day of treatment in Akola, 10 new +ve in Yavatmal

Nagpur: On Thursday, Akola reported another death, 29th of the city and 59th of Vidarbha. The deceased was an 80-year-old man undergoing treatment since May 15 and it was 14th day of his treatment. Doctors said he was having severe comorbidities and age-related problems.
This was 15th death in Vidarbha in last eight days. Ten Mumbai returnees tested positive in Yavatmal district after three days of no new case.With Nagpur (12), Akola (9), Gondia (9), Amravati (5), and Bhandara (5), total 58 new cases were reported on Thursday. Total cases in Vidarbha reached 1502.
On the other hand, recoveries were more than the number of new patients on Thursday. With 34 in Akola and 10 in Amravati, total 56 patients were discharged on Thursday. These include five from Gadchiroli. All five were migrant labourers coming from high risk hotspots of Mumbai. They successfully recovered in ten days and were discharged. Till date, Vidarbha has discharged 951 patients and recovery rate is almost 64%.
Akola, that had recorded highest single day spike of 72 on Wednesday, recorded nine new patients on Thursday. In Yavatmal, district administration that was trumpeting that coronavirus spread in the rural areas was caontained during the last five days, was taken aback after 10 home quarantined people from Pusad and Digras tested positive.
Those found positive are the returnees of Mumbai. Now the administration has woken up to find out high risk contacts of new patients.
In Amravati, a 26-year-old PG student who went to Super Speciality Hospital here to make enquiry about job vacancy is among the five who tested posirive for Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the count of the district to 191. The boy, who hails from Vasantrao Naik Slum No 1 in Dussehra Maidan locality and is doing PG at local Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities. When he developed symptoms, he went to a doctor in Ravi Nagar who advised him to get tested. He has been removed to Covid ward while his family has been put in institutional quarantine. Dussehra Maidan has become a new containment zone, 32nd in the city.
Similarly, a 64-year-old man, who tested positive today, turned Shobha Nagar into the 33rd containment zone. An official release from civil surgeon’s office said of the 158 reports received today from SGBAU lab, five tested positive.
The release further said that of the five, a 35-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, came from Masanganj hotspot while a 35-yr-old woman is from Hanuman Nagar. With today’s two cases the Covid count of Masanganj has reached 30. It includes one death and seven recovered persons.
Hanuman Nagar’s count has gone up to eight, including six recovered while Dussehra Maidan today became a new locality, 41st in the city, to report a confirmed Covid case, informed an AMC official. Just nine short of 200-mark, Amravati’s 191 cases now include 15 deaths, three referred to GMCH, Nagpur (one discharged), 75 active cases and 98 discharged.
Chandrapur: Chandrapur and Washim too remained free of new cases. It is third consecutive day when there was no positive detection in Chandrapur. The tally of positive patients still stands at 22. Two of the first postive patients have been discharged. There are only 20 active patients in Chandrapur now. Officials claimed condition of all is stable.
Wardha: Two more Covid-19 positive patients were reported in district on Thursday. The total positive patients reached 19 and the patients undergoing treatment are 18. A 19-year-old girl tested positive for Covid-19 who was a close contact of Sawangi’s positive patient of Tuesday. She has been admitted to Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital, Sawangi.
A 24-year-old woman from Akola was found infected. She had come from Akola on May 24 in a car with her husband carrying a 1-month-old baby. Family was accompanied by a driver. After dropping her, husband and driver returned to Akola. She was kept in home quarantine at her maternal home in Arvi. The woman has been admitted to Kasturba Hospital, Sewagram, with her baby for treatment. Swab samples of five close contacts (including baby) have been sent for testing.
Bhandara also recorded five new cases, all coming from Mumbai and Pune. Two persons from institutional quarantine in Gadchiroli tested positive while five patients admitted in district hospital recovered and were discharged.