Vidarbha’s death toll crosses 100, +ve cases top 3000

NAGPUR: With 6 deaths reported for the second consecutive day, Vidarbha’s Covid-19 death count surpassed the century on Monday.
Three of the deaths were registered in the rural parts of Yavatmal, two from Akola and 1 from Nagpur where a critical patient from Madhya Pradesh died. Vidarbha’s death now stands at 104.
Also, as reported by TOI on Monday, six is the highest number of deaths registered in Vidarbha.
A 135 cases were also reported and that took Vidarbha’s positive cases to 3,080. On Monday, Nagpur has 1,063 cases and Akola 1041. Totally, 70 patients recovered from the virus and were discharged from the region taking the recovery count to 1,976. At 406, Nagpur has the highest number of patients undergoing treatment.
While cases are growing across the state, the number of deaths being reported over the last two days is a major cause of concern for Vidarbha. 15 days of June has seen 37 deaths and at this rate it could surpass May’s total of 54 deaths. 64% of the deceased are male patients.
Akola still accounts for more than 50% of the total Vidarbha count. Akola now has 53 deaths, the highest in Vidarbha. Nagpur and Amravati have 17 deaths each, Yavatmal has 7, Buldhana 5, Wardha and Washim 2 each and Gadchiroli 1. Chandrapur, Bhandara, and Gondia are the districts where no deaths has been reported till date.
When it comes to age-group, the highest 30 deaths in Vidarbha are of the patients from 51-60 years of age group. Total 24 of the deceased were between 61-70 years, while 23 of them aged between 41 and 50 years. Most of the deceased had severe comorbidities like diabetes, hypertension while many of them had acute illnesses. Four of the deceased were between 20 to 30 years of age. But, they were having critical health issues, addictions and other problems.
Two SRPF jawans — both 35 — from the Wadali camp are among the 10 who tested positive in Amravati, taking the district’s count to 348. Three patients also walked out free to take the count of discharged patients to 253.
The old city of Badnera threw up two more cases — males aged 23 and 75. While the former is from Malipura, the latter is from Chaman Nagar on Pimpri Road. In Amravati district, Badnera (28) is second to Masanganj (40).
A 52-year-old female from Jama Masjid in Sabanpura locality, who was being treated at a private hospital, tested positive at a private lab in Nagpur. AMC sources said that she has been shifted to the Covid hospital. A 47-year-old man in institutional quarantine at Walgaon tested positive today to take that tehsil’s tally to 12.
Machchisath was another new locality to report a positive case — a 63-year-old man. Kamela Ground went again into containment zone after a 30-year-old male tested positive. This is the sixth case from the locality and it includes one death.
On Monday, Sharda Vihar reported two cases — 55-year-old man 50-year-old woman — to take the colony’s count to 3.
In Chandrapur, a 25-year-old man residing in Kerla Colony in Krishna Nagar tested positive. He was put into institutional quarantine at the Government Engineering College after returning from New Delhi. His swab sample was collected after he developed symptoms on Sunday.
The total of positive patients in Chandrapur has now reached up to 48. A total of 12 cases have been found under Chandrapur Municipal corporation. Apart from this, nine cases have been reported in Ballarpur, Warora, Rajura, Mul, Bhadravati, Brahmapuri, Korpana and Nagbhid taluka headquarters.
In rural areas, six cases have been reported in Chandrapur taluka, two in Ballarpur taluka, one in Pombhurna, two in Sindewahi, three in Mul, 10 in Brahmapuri and three in Nagbhid taluka. One infected person belongs to another district.
Out total 48 patients, only 23 are under treatment in the district.
The three deceased in Yavatmal are a 60-year-old man from Pusad and, 45-year-old man and 66-year-old woman from Darwha. There are 39 people in the GMC isolation ward of whom 32 are under treatment.
Meanwhile, an intensive survey is planned at the PHC level to identify Covid-19, SARI and ILI patients. The health workers would conduct the survey with the help of thermal scanner and pulse oxymeter.
Gondia saw another blast on Monday when 14 returnees from Gulf countries on ‘Vande Bharat’ flights tested positive. The district count of 86 is the sixth highest in Vidarbha. However, only 17 are undergoing treatment, with 16 being gulf returnees.
The rural spread of Covid-19 is taking a serious turn in Buldhana. On Monday, 12 new patients were reported – 11 from Malkapur and 1 from Lonar. These cases include an 8-month old baby boy from Hanuman Chowk in Malkapur and his 27-yr-old mother. Buldhana’s total cases are now 130, including 81 recoveries and 5 deaths.
Three patients went home after recovering from the virus in Gadchiroli. This reduced active cases in Gadchiroli to 7.