Single day highest tally of cases in Nagpur, deaths in Vid

Nagpur: In highest ever single day figures, Nagpur recorded 658 cases alone while entire Vidarbha saw 1,090 cases and 32 deaths on Wednesday. In Vidarbha’s highest ever single-day Covid death toll, most took place in Nagpur (15) and Amravati (10) taking the region’s fatality tally to 512 on Wednesday. Buldhana (4), Yavatmal (2), and Wardha (1) were the other districts which registered Covid deaths.
The region’s 11 districts also crossed the 18,000-mark with 1,090 new cases. The day also saw 306 persons discharged. Nagpur continued to add most number of cases crossing the 600 mark in a day first time. Vidarbha’s tally is now at 18,729, comprising 5,782 under treatment and total 12,046 recovered. Of the total, 4,186 cases have been reported in just five days of August.
Among the 15 deaths in Nagpur is one SARI patient while most of the others had comorbidities and acute respiratory distress syndrome. All of them were admitted in critical stage of infection and died within a couple of days of admission.
AMRAVATI: The 10 Covid deaths on Wednesday is the district’s highest single-day toll. A spike of 74 cases took the number of patients to 2,674, while total deaths are 80.
According to civil surgeon’s office, 58-year-old man and 75-year-old woman, both from Namuna Galli, 55-year-old man from Budhiyanagar in Frazerpura, 49-year-old woman from Yashodanagar, 58-year-old man from Kirannagar, 79-year-old female from Camp, 72-year-old man from Gopalnagar and 61-year-old man from Ishwar Apartment near Vidyabharti Mahavidyalaya died at Covid Hospital along with a 70-year-old woman from Daryapur and a 50-year-old man from Morshi.
The rural belt reported 15 new cases to take its count to 621. Single cases came from 19 other localities. The report also said 10 patients got discharge taking the number of recovered patients to 1,840. This left 752 under treatment, including 15 in Nagpur.
BULDHANA: Death of four under-treatment Covid-19 patients rocked Buldhana on August 5. This took Covid-19 toll of this district to 34. The deceased include 78-year-old man from Telugu Nagar, Buldhana; 40-year-old man from Shivaji Nagar, Khamgaon; 70-year-old woman from Chikhli and 55-year-old man from Lonar.
Buldhana received reports of 507 tests on Wednesday. Out of them, 78 were positive. This took total number of Covid-19 cases to 1,617. With 39 patients recovering in a day, total number of recovered patients reached 979. Buldhana now has 604 patients under treatment. Total 10,691 people have been tested for Covid-19 as on date. Reports of 101 tests are still awaited.
YAVATMAL: With two fatalities on Wednesday, Covid-19 death count in Yavatmal has reached 38. A 65-year-old woman from Laxmi Nagar in Yavatmal and a 75-year-old woman from Dhanki in Umarkhed tehsil were the deceased. A record 102 patients recovered in a day and were discharged from Yavatmal on Wednesday. This took number of recovered patients in Yavatmal to 912.
Recovery rate of the district is 70%. Now, Yavatmal has 1,311 total cases. With 38 Covid-19 deaths, total 361 are under treatment here as of now.
CHANDRAPUR: District registered a massive spike of 57 patients, the largest so far, catapulting the Covid-19 total to 682 on Wednesday. With the discharge of 10 from hospital, the tally of cured patients has climbed up to 406, leaving 274 under treatment. There was no death reported due to Covid-19 during the day and total death figure remains at two.
The new patients include 23 from Chandrapur city and peripheral habitations, eight from Ballarpur city and adjoining Visapur village, Bhadrawati 7, Warora 5, Rajura 2, Korpana 2, Bramhapuri 4, Nagbhid 5 and a lone patient from Nagpur tested positive here.
Health authorities claimed the high number of patients is now coming from contacts of positive patients, who had earlier returned from other states or hotspots like Pune and Mumbai. Health department has increased the antigen testing of people across the district. The testing centre at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel School in city has carried out more than 9,000 tests during last few days. Officials suspect further spurt in the number of patients in coming days following large scale testing.
WASHIM: It was a day of some respite for Washim. Only 5 new patients were detected despite 300-plus tests on Wednesday. On the other hand, six patients recovered and discharged. This took total number of cases to 790, and recovered patients to 465. With 18 deaths (including a suicide), Washim has 465 patients under treatment.
AKOLA: A large number of tests being done in rural parts of Akola district are bringing to fore more positive cases. On August 8, total 92 new cases were detected in the district from total 670 tests done. Out of these, 47 were tested through rapid antigen form while remaining 46 through RT-PCR tests. Most of the patients are from rural areas.
Total cases reached 2,800 while 2,286 of them have been discharged till date with 46 getting recovered on August 5. Total 393 patients are under treatment.
BHANDARA: The district saw rise of 13 new Covid-19 cases while 12 patients recovered on August 5. Positive patients are from Bhandara (2), Tumsar (6), Sakoli (2), Mohadi (2), and Lakhandur (1). Total Covid-19 cases in the district reached 318 including 227 recovered and 2 deaths reported in July. Now, 89 patients are under treatment. Out of them, 7 are referred to Nagpur.
GONDIA: Another big spike of 52 novel coronavirus cases was registered in the district on August 5. These include 38 residents of Tirora tehsil and residents of Railtoli, Sindhi Colony, Shastri Ward and Kudwa localities in Gondia among others. With this, total number of cases in Gondia reached 458. With 248 of them getting discharged and 3 deaths reported earlier, total 207 patients are under treatment here.
GADCHIROLI: With 23 new cases detected in a day on Wednesday, Gadchiroli’s total Covid-19 case count has reached 667 on August 5. Covid patients include 18 SRPF jawans from Korchi and Etapalli. Others include 3 from institutional quarantine in Aheri, and one each from Dhanora CCC and district hospital of Gadchiroli. Eight patients got discharge on Wednesday taking the total number of recovered patients to 508. Now, Gadchiroli has 158 patients under treatment.
WARDHA: A 60-year-old Covid patient woman from Hinganghat died at Sewagram hospital, while 13 new novel coronavirus cases were detected in the district on Wednesday. Moreover, 16 Covid patients defeated the virus and were discharged from hospitals. As on Wednesday, 11 males and 2 females tested Covid positive and they are from Wardha tehsil (5), Arvi tehsil (3), Selu tehsil (2), Deoli tehsil (2), and Talegaon (1).
Total 215 test reports were received on Wednesday of which 13 came positive. In all, 237 new swab samples were sent for testing on Wednesday.