Nagpur and Akola surpass 1,000-mark of Covid cases

Nagpur: Both the coronavirus hotspot districts in Vidarbha — Nagpur and Akola — surpassed the 1,000-mark of Covid-19 cases on Sunday. While Nagpur took 95 days to cross the undesirable milestone, Akola surpassed 1,000 cases in just 67 days. Akola also reported five deaths in a day on Sunday with which the Covid-19 death toll of Akola is now 51 against Vidarbha’s 98.
Vidarbha also inched closer to 3,000-mark with the total number of cases reaching 2,945 on Sunday. With 40 patients recovered today, total 1,906 of them have been discharged so far. Recovery rate of Vidarbha once again remained around 65% (64.71% to be precise).
Nagpur reported 31 new cases in a day from NMC as well as rural (district) areas, while Akola reported 22. With this, Nagpur’s total reached 1,002 and Akola’s 1,007. With this, Nagpur and Akola together account for 2,009 cases out of Vidarbha’s total of 2,945, which is 68.71%. These two districts together have registered 67 deaths till date out of the 98 in Vidarbha, which means nearly 70%.
Third worst-hit Amravati has 17 deaths till date. Amravati also registered 14 new cases on Sunday to take its patient tally to 338. Yavatmal and Washim saw unusual spike of 10 and 11 cases, respectively, on Sunday.
After a gap of three days, Chandrapur registered three new cases today. A man, who returned from Dubai as part of Vande Bharat mission, tested positive in Gondia, while two Delhi returnees tested positive in Bhandara.
Buldhana continued to report five new cases and its total reached 118. A woman from rural Buldhana, who died two days ago, tested positive on Sunday and became 5th Covid-19 death from Buldhana. Wardha and Gadchiroli reported no new case on Sunday.
AMRAVATI: Old City and the New City area of Badnera collectively contributed seven of the 14 new cases detected on Sunday to take the district’s Covid-19 count to 338. On the other hand, 13 patients got discharge from Covid Hospital today to take the number of recovered patients to 250. There are now 71 active cases, including five under treatment at Nagpur.
Besides the 14 found positive, two from the district tested positive in Nagpur and are taking treatment here, according to reports reaching here. They include a 40-year-old woman from Garba Chowk locality in Amba Gate area and a noted sculpturist from Paratwada, who had returned from Mumbai.
The Old City of Badnera, which has been reporting patients for the last three days, today registered six new cases, all males aged 78, 72, 57, 46, 30 and 20, while New City saw one, a 52-year-old woman from Railway Quarters near hockey ground. This has taken Badnera’s count to 24, with 12 of them coming since Friday.
Chandur Bazar town and Ghatladki reported second case today, both women aged 25 and 30 respectively, taking this taluka’s count to 11 cases with one death to date.
RukminiNagar in Amravati reported its sixth case, a 37-year-old male, while Narayan Nagar close to it registered two, a couple aged 59 (M) and 54 (F).
The virus also made its debut in Pathan Chowk with a 33-year-old testing positive while Paratwada posted its fourth case, a 42-year-old man.
CHANDRAPUR: Three more Covid patients were found in the district on Sunday taking the total cases to 47. All three of them have contracted the infection from local contacts and they have no travel history.
The new patients include two women, wife and daughter of a Covid positive from Sumitra Nagar in Tukum locality of city. Officials claimed that 47-year-old wife and 30-year-old daughter tested positive, but their condition is stable. The third new patient is from Talodhi Khurd village in Bramhapuri. The 30-year-old person has contracted the infection from positive patients from Adyal Tekdi, also in same teshil.
Out of total 47 patients in Chandrapur, 24 have been treated and discharged. There are presently 23 active cases.
YAVATMAL: Once again there is sudden spurt in the number of coronavirus patients in the isolation ward of GMC Yavatmal on Sunday which has created panic among the officials. Total 10 patients tested positive in a day. Two each of them are from two families and four from another single family of Ner while one is from Pusad. Currently there are 40 persons admitted in the GMC isolation ward of whom 34 are active positive patients. One patient was discharged on Sunday.
One naik constable, attached to Darwha police station, has also tested positive which caused panic among the people who gathered in front of the police station. The crowd turned violent and they started pelting stones. Timely intervention by the police brought the situation under control. An offence under relevant sections of IPC was registered against the culprits. Further investigation is in progress, said the SP M Rajkumar.