2 Amravati patients die in Nagpur, Vidarbha Covid toll 128

Nagpur reported death of two Covid-19 patients on Monday when two persons — hailing from Amravati district and tested Covid positive in Nagpur — died at GMCH. They include 36-year-old auto-driver from Amravati’s Mominpura and 75-year-old man from Namuna in Amravati. Both were brought to Nagpur for non-Covid illness but they tested positive for Covid-19 on June 16.
With this, the Covid death toll of Nagpur has reached 20, with seven of them being non-Nagpur residents.
Together, Vidarbha recorded 85 new cases on Monday taking total Covid cases to 3,799. Out of Monday’s 85, Akola alone accounts for 51 cases while Nagpur (14), Amravati (8), Buldhana (8), Bhandara (2), Gadchiroli (1) and Chandrapur (1) follow.
On the recovery front, 78 patients in Vidarbha were discharged on Monday taking total recovery post 2500-mark to 2,528. Highest 34 were from Nagpur while 16 recovered from Washim. Total 13 patients were discharged from Amravati, including a mother and her newborn. Eight patients discharged from Buldhana and 3 from Gondia. Recovery rate of Vidarbha once again remained above 65% despite the number of patients was more than the number of recoveries.
Swab samples of a 55-year-old man from Malkapur who died on June 16 tested positive in Buldhana on Monday becoming 8th Covid-19 death in Buldhana. With 8 new cases, total Covid-19 cases in this district reached 165. On the other hand, 8 patients recovered from here taking recovery count to 122. Now, Buldhana has 35 active cases.
AMRAVATI: While Amravati posted a triple century of recovered Covid-19 patients on Monday, eight new positive cases have taken its Covid count to 438 now. A release from civil surgeon’s office said 13 patients, including a woman who delivered a baby at the Covid Hospital on June 15, were discharged following their recovery today. This has taken the number of recovered patients to 300.
The Covid virus made its entry in Anjangaon Surji town in Daryapur tehsil today as a 60-year-old male reported positive from there. In city, Nandanwan colony and Rajgirnagar also posted their first case through a 55-year-old female and a 36-year-old male, respectively.
Hotspot Badnera took its count to 58 as a 17-year-old boy from Mhada Colony there tested positive. Likewise, Habibnagar reported its 16th case through a 74-year-old woman.
A 60-year-old male from Sabanpura took the locality’s count to seven this morning while Forest Colony reported its fourth case through a 46-year-old male.
With the discharge of 300 and deaths of 18, the number of active cases is 120 now. Ten of them are in Nagpur.
YAVATMAL: Currently 63 active positive patients are in the isolation ward of both the GMC and the rural Covid-19 care centres. Initially, patients were found in the city but later this trend has changed and it slowly sneaked into the rural parts. It has mostly affected the tehsils like Ner, Darwha, Digras, Arni, Mahagaon, and Pusad.
The administration has promptly contained affected areas and requested public not to venture out without essential reasons. So far, Yavatmal has recorded 234 positive patients of whom 161 have recovered and discharged from GMC isolation ward.
On Monday, district collector MD Singh and SP M Rajkumar visited containment area of Arni and instructed officers to take precautionary measures to avert spread of Covid-19. Health department has so far sent 46 swabs from this area for testing. Fifty more swabs are to be collected.
CHANDRAPUR: One more person was detected positive to novel coronavirus infection on Monday and with this total number of patients in the district has now reached 57. New patient is 28-year-old youth, native of Sneh Nagar in city, who had returned from Mumbai on June 13. He was home quarantined. His sample was gathered on Sunday which tested positive today. Meanwhile, 43 out of total 57 patients have been treated and discharged from hospital. Presently, there are only 14 active patients in Chandrapur.
GONDIA: No new case has been reported from the district for fifth day in a row. Two more patients from Tirora of 30-35 age group were discharged today. Number of active cases has gone down to 30 now.