6 deaths reported 4th time in June; toll at 125

Nagpur: Five districts — Nagpur, Akola, Amravati, Yavatmal and Buldhana — having highest Covid-19 cases in Vidarbha reported total of six deaths on Sunday. Two patients died in Akola, while one each died in remaining four districts. This is the fourth time six deaths were reported in June, and second day in a row. This took the Covid-10 death toll in Vidarbha to 125, with 58 of them in 21 days of June only.Akola accounts for 66 of these 125 deaths.
All these five districts also reported new cases too. Nagpur (27), Akola (29), Amravati (12), Yavatmal (7), Buldhana (6), and Akola reported three patients testing positive on June 21. Chandrapur and Washim reported one new case each, taking the total to 3,714.
Recoveries were fewer than new cases. Nagpur reported 33 while Akola (10), Amravati (8), Yavatmal (5), Buldhana (5), Chandrapur (4), and Gadchiroli (3) accounted for total of 76 patients recovered and discharged on Sunday. Total recovered patients now are 2,450 – almost 66% of total cases.
AKOLA: A 48-yr-old man from Naigaon area, admitted since June 8 at GMCH Akola, died on Sunday. A woman (50), from Shegaon in Buldhana district, admitted in Akola on June 19 also died on June 21. Both had severe comorbid conditions. Now Akola has seen 66 deaths. Total 29 new cases were also reported on Sunday here, while 10 patients were discharged. Akola still has 364 active cases, and some of them are critical.
AMRAVATI: A 58-year-old woman from Malipura in Old City, Badnera, died at Covid hospital on Sunday, a hospital source said. This took the death toll to 18. It is the first death from Badnera. Also, 12 new Covid-19 positive cases, including a six-month-old baby boy on Sunday took the district’s count to 430. Even as Badnera residents voluntarily started observing a four-day Janata Curfew from 4pm of Saturday to break the coronavirus chain, four new cases emerged from the town on Sunday to take its count to 57.
The new cases in Badnera were from Malipura, where a couple aged 66 (male) and 58 (female) and two men aged 25 and 35 tested positive. A 33-year-old jawan from SRPF Camp in Wadali locality also tested positive. Chhaya Colony, Jewad Nagar and Namuna Lane No. 2 became new localities to report patients.
Vilas Nagar reported its second case in a nine-year-old girl. Jai Nagar, also a new locality, has two positive males aged 15 and 24. Gopal Nagar saw its fourth case in a six-month-old female baby, the second youngest in the district, after a three-month-old from Aurangapura earlier. Meanwhile, eight patients were discharged on Sunday, taking the number to 287.
YAVATMAL: A 64-year old man admitted in GMCH isolation ward with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) died on Sunday, taking death toll of Yavatmal to 10. Five patients were discharged while seven new cases were reported, taking total of Yavatmal to 234. Out of them, active cases are 63.
BULDHANA: A 30-yr-old youth, who died on June 16, tested positive in Buldhana taking death toll in district to 7. Six new cases were reported, taking total cases to 157. With 114 of 157 recovered, and seven deaths – there are 36 active patients now.
CHANDRAPUR: One more person was found positive taking total to 56 in Chandrapur. The 20-year-old native of Pombhurna had arrived from New Delhi on June 20 at Nagpur airport, and reached Shakuntala Farms in city for medical examination. He had mild fever and was admitted at GMCH, where he tested positive on Sunday. So far 43 patients have been discharged, and only 13 actives patients are left. All patients are stable. There has been no fatality in Chandrapur so far.
WARDHA: Two relatives who came in contact with a 67-year-old patient from Akola reported positive on Sunday. They are the patient’s 62-year-old wife and 82-year-old mother-in-law. Total active patients in district are now four. These two new patients had got first reports negative. All three were in isolation ward of Sawangi. After showing symptoms two days ago, they tested positive.
WASHIM: While six patients were discharged from Washim, one man from Amravati tested positive. This took total cases in Washim to 80, including 25 recovered and 2 deaths.
GONDIA: There were no fresh cases on Sunday. Reports of 109 samples are awaited. Total 2,858 persons are in institutional or home quarantine.
GADCHIROLI: With no new patient reported on June 21, three existing patients recovered and were discharged. With 45 of 60 patients discharged and one native patient dead in Telangana, Gadchiroli has 14 active cases.