Covid cases cross 11,000 mark in Vidarbha, last 1,000 in just 2 days

NAGPUR: With more than 400 new Covid-19 cases for the third day in a row, Vidarbha’s case count surpassed the 11,000-mark and reached 11,123 on Friday. It took just two days to reach the last 1,000 cases which hints at increase in doubling rate of cases in the region. Experts said this surge also hints at the projected peak which is now expected by mid-August.
Along with the increasing number of cases, rising death count is a bigger worry for the region.On Friday, eight deaths were reported from the region, including 4 from Nagpur alone. Akola, Yavatmal, Amravati and Wardha registered 1 death each. This took the death count of Vidarbha to 291, of which 133 have been recorded in 24 days of July.
Nagpur recorded its highest single day surge of 222 cases. The four deaths include a 35-year-old man, a 46-year-old man from Zingabai takli, a 62-year-old man and a woman. Yavatmal recorded one more death for the third consecutive day. Here, a 50-year-old woman died during treatment. An 89-year-old man from Chandur Bazar died in Amravati, while a 62-year-old man from Murtizapur died in Akola. In Wardha, a 64-yr-old woman succumbed at Sawangi.
All 11 districts in Vidarbha recorded positive cases on Friday. These include Nagpur (222), Amravati (58), Washim (50), Buldhana (42), Akola (33), Yavatmal (19), Chandrapur (13), Gadchiroli (12), Wardha (10), Bhandara (5), and Gondia (3). Total 467 cases were reported on Friday. The highest single day surge of Vidarbha is 478 on July 22.
The only relieving factor on Friday was the number of recovered patients. Total 314 patients, including Nagpur (94), Gadchiroli (58), Akola (50), Buldhana (36), Washim (29), Amravati (27), Chandrapur (12), Bhandara (3), Yavatmal (3), and Gondia (2) recovered from the region. This took the number of recovered patients to 7,433, which is 66.8% of the total cases. Vidarbha’s recovery rate is still better than Maharashtra’s 56% and national average of 63.3%.
AMRAVATI: A death and a spike of 58 cases saw the district’s toll reaching 45 and its Covid count going up to 1608. With 27 patients getting discharge, the number of recovered patients reached 1,066, leaving 497 active cases, 14 of which are taking treatment in Nagpur. Fourteen of the 58 cases came from rural parts. A CS office report said that an 89-year-old man from Chincholi village in Chandur Bazar tehsil, who tested positive on July 22 and was taking treatment at a Covid hospital here, breathed his last to post 45th death in the district.
AKOLA: A 62-year-old man from Barami-Khurd in Murtizapur tehsil, who was under treatment since July 20, died on Friday. This was the 107th death in the district. But the district administration decided to substract the deaths of 8 patients from other districts/regions who died in Akola during treatment. So, officially, the death toll here has reduced to 99. Akola received 110 reports on Friday of which 33 tested positive. With this, total cases reached 2,334. As many 50 patients got discharge, while 321 are under treatment in the district.
YAVATMAL: For the third day in a row, a death was reported on Friday. A 50-year-old woman from Chondi village of Pusad tehsil died during treatment. With this, the death toll has reached 25. On Friday, 19 new positive patients were recorded while 3 got discharge. The GMCH has sent 66 swab samples to the lab. So far, 11,557 swab samples have been sent to the lab of which reports of 627 are awaited. According to official sources, there are 234 active positive patients in the GMCH isolation ward. The administration has imposed curfew from midnight on July 24 till July 31. There was heavy rush for buying essentials throwing Covid distancing measures to the wind and causing headache for police.
WARDHA: A 64-year-old woman died at Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural hospital (AVBRH), Sawangi, taking the death toll to six. The decease, a resident of Borgaon (Meghe), tested positive five days before and was taking treatment at AVBRH. The number of Covid here is also increasing. On Friday, 10 more patients have been diagnosed. They are from Wardha (3), Arvi (6) and one from Kandhali village in Samudrapur tehsil.
Among the infected patients were a 46-year-old man, an 18-year-old youth and a 44-year-old woman from Gandhi Nagar (Wardha), a 60-year-old woman from Kandhali village, 5 members of a family, a resident of Valisahab ward of Arvi, and a person from Arvi.
CHANDRAPUR: With addition of 13 more patients, the tally here has now gone up to 349. However, 214 patients have been cured and discharged, while 135 others are under treatment. The 13 new patients include five from Mul tehsil, one from Gadchandur, two from Chandrapur city, one from Zhilbodi and four from Chimur tehsil. District collector Dr Kunal Khemnar has curtailed the lockdown imposed in Chandrapur city, neigbouring Urjanagar and Durgapur villages by two days and called it off from Saturday. The administration had imposed at these places between July 19 and 26 and additional restrictions were promulgated to break the chain of infection.
WASHIM: As many as 50 new cases were reported while 29 got discharge here on Friday. One of the worst-hit tehsils — Mangrul Pir — registered only 3 cases on Friday whereas 29 patients from the city were discharged. Total cases in Washim has reached 488 with 276 of them recovered and 9 deaths. Total 203 patients are under treatment.
BULDHANA: Of the 200 reports received on Friday, 42 tested positive taking the number of cases to 915. Total 36 patients recovered in a day while 515 have been discharged so far. The recovered patients include an 80-year-old, 75-year-old and 74-year old, all residents of Nava Fail area of Khamgaon, which is the worst hit in the district. As many as 376 patients are under treatment here. Reports of 192 presumptive cases are yet to arrive.
GADCHIROLI: A record 58 patients recovered in a day here on Friday. On the other hand, 12 new patients tested positive which include 9 SRPF Jawans, a government doctor and a government engineer. This took the total number of cases in the district to 441. Total 235 of them have recovered while 205 patients are under treatment.
GONDIA: With 217 of the 240 cases recovered and discharged, Gondia has Maharashtra’s best recovery rate at around 90%. On Friday, 3 cases were came to fore. Of these, 2 are from Deori tehsil and one is from Sadak Arjuni. With three deaths registered earlier this month, Gondia now has only 20 patients under treatment.
BHANDARA: Total 110 samples were tested in the district on Friday of which 5 tested positive, taking the total number of cases to 215. On the other hand, 3 patients got discharge. With this, 171 patients have recovered from the district. With 2 deaths reported earlier, the district has 42 patients under treatment.