This story is from August 5, 2020

With 22 deaths, fatality rate of Vidarbha is moving upwards

With 22 deaths, fatality rate of Vidarbha is moving upwards
Nagpur: For the fourth time in row on August 4, Vidarbha region reported more than 20 Covid-19 deaths taking the total death toll of the region to 480. With 93 deaths reported just in 4 days of August, the case fatality rate of region increased to 2.72%. This rate was well in control in July despite of a surge in deaths.
To be precise, the CFR was below 2.6% since July 22 and reached above 2.7% for the first time since then on August 4.
The increase is just in some decimal points, but becomes a matter of grave concern when the graph of CFR of Maharashtra as well as national average is going down daily and Vidarbha is showing an upward trend. More serious is that 63 of the 93 deaths in August are reported from Nagpur district alone. Even on Tuesday, 17 deaths were reported from the district. Yavatmal reported 2 deaths while one patient died in Wardha and Akola each. Another death that happened on August 3 was reported in Wardha district on August 4. Vidarbha region in this way, reported 22 deaths.
Nagpur recorded 340 cases in a day, highest in August so far. With Amravati (135), Yavatmal (58), Buldhana (52), Washim (32), Chandrapur (28), Bhandara (16) Gadchiroli (13), Akola (10), Wardha (09), and Gondia (2) – total 688 cases were reported on Tuesday. This took Vidarbha’s total cases above the 17,000-mark. Vidarbha is now reporting 1000 cases every two days.
Recoveries, despite being constant, are not increasing as rapidly as compared to new cases. On Tuesday, 422 patients recovered from Vidarbha. They were from Nagpur (120), Amravati (83), Yavatmal (80), Buldhana (53), Akola (34), Chandrapur (24), Wardha (11), Washim (11), Gondia (3), and Gadchiroli (2). Recovery rate of the region remained around 66.5%.
Amravati: Recording its second highest single day spike of 135, the district took its Covid count to 2598 on Tuesday. With 83 getting discharge, the number of recovered patients reached 1830. This left 698 active cases, including 15 taking treatment in Nagpur. The rural belt also posted its highest single day count of 80 to take its tally to 606.
The Nandgaon Peth MIDC experienced a Covid blast of 27 cases, 12, nine, eight and six came from Chandur Railway, Dhamangaon Railway, Achalpur and Chandur Bazar tehsils. Mahuli Jehangir posted three and Anjangaon Surji posted four cases while two cases each came from Karanja Lad in Washim district, Teosa, Bhatkuli and Rahatgaon. Daryapur, Masod, Bodna, Morshi and Kekatpur reported a case each.

In the city, the highest 11 cases came from Badnera which took its own tally to 212. New Ambedkar Nagar reported four cases while three each came from Sarojnagar and Itwara. A brace each came from Frezerpura, Chilam Chhaoni, Belpura, Bhovate Layout and Tirupatinagar. Twenty-two other localities reported a case each.
Yavatmal: With 2 Covid-19 deaths and 58 new cases, Yavatmal has seen a record 80 patients recovered in a day on August 4. A 65-year-old woman from Patipura area in Yavatmal city and a 55-year-old from Fulwadi area in Digras died on Tuesday. This took the total Covid-19 death toll of Yavatmal to 36. Now, Yavatmal has total 1286 cases, including 810 of them recovered and 36 deaths. Total 440 patients are under treatment in the district.
Akola: Only 10 patients tested positive out of 82 test reports received on August 4 while 34 patients got discharge. A 50-year-old man from Murjizapur died in Akola. He was under treatment since July 31. The man was admitted in a critical condition. With this, the total death toll in Akola reached 121. Total number of cases in Akola reached 2708, including 2243 discharged and 121 deaths. Akola has 344 patients under treatment.
Wardha: Two deaths due to Covid-19 on August 3 and 4 respectively were reported from Wardha taking the total number of Covid-19 deaths in the district to 8. Spike in new cases continued with 9 positive patients in the district on Tuesday. Four men and five women are among the positive and they are from Arvi (3), Wardha (5) and Talegaon (1). Total 12 patients got discharged after recovering. With 8 deaths and 226 recoveries, Wardha has 26 patients under treatment at present.
Buldhana: In all, 346 tests were done in Buldhana district on August 4 out of which 52 new positive patients of Covid-19 were detected. Now, the total number of cases in the district is 1539. Recoveries also continued with 53 discharged on Tuesday. Now, 940 out of 1539 have recovered in Buldhana and the recovery rate surpassed the 60% mark. Buldhana has recorded no death in the last two days. With 30 deaths reported earlier, 569 patients are under treatment at present.
Bhandara: With one more double digit increase in the number of Covid-19 cases, Bhandara recorded 16 new patients on August 4. The number of total cases surged to 305. Only one patient recovered and got discharged, taking the total to 215. With 2 deaths reported earlier, total 88 patients are under treatment in Bhandara. Out of these, six have been referred to Nagpur.
Washim: Total 32 new patients were detected while 11 patients got discharged on August 4 from Washim district. This took the total number of cases to 785 and recovered patients to 459. With 17 deaths and a suicide reported earlier, the total number of patients under treatment is 308 in Washim.
Chandrapur: The district registered a rise of 28 Covid-19 patients on Tuesday, taking the total to 625. Chandrapur also crossed the mark of 600 patients. The last 100 came in a record four days. A total of 24 patients were discharged during the day taking the tally of cured patients to 396. This has left 227 active patients who are under treatment. District has registered two deaths so far.
Chandrapur has witnessed a steep rise of over 500 patients in the last 33 days. The spurt of infection had baffled the administration forcing it to go for a lockdown in Chandrapur city and surrounding hotspots to contain the spread. The district administration also increased the Covid tests manifold and had launched massive antigen testing of suspected people to identify the patients.
The first coronavirus patient in Chandrapur was found on May 2. It took 61 days to reach the mark of 100 patients (July 2) in the district. The 200 patient mark came within 12 days on July 14. The 300 and 400 mark came within six days, on July 20 and July 26 respectively. The next 100 patients came in the next five days on July 31, taking the district caseload above the 500 mark. However, the next 100 came in only four days, taking the total tally past the 600 figure. New patients on Tuesday include 12 from Chandrapur city, five from Ballarpur town, three each from Bramhapuri and Bhadrawati tehsils, two each from Sindewahi and Rajura tehsils and one from Mul town.
Gadchiroli: The district witnessed 13 new cases. One patient was discharged on Tuesday. Now, 500 patients out of 644 total cases in Gadchiroli have recovered and have been discharged. The district has 143 patients under treatment.
Gondia: While two new patients were found positive, three recovered from Gondia district on Tuesday. The district has seen 142 new patients in the last 5 days. Gondia district has tested 10,000 on the RT-PCR machine and 2782 via rapid antigen tests till date. Reports of 125 tests are still awaited from the VRDL lab in GMCH Gondia. Presently, 156 patients are under treatment in Gondia.
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