With whopping 1,412 cases and 45 deaths, Vid Covid tally crosses 25k mark

Nagpur: With highest ever single day surge of 1,412 Covid-19 cases, Vidarbha’s total case count surpassed 25,000 mark and reached 25,911 on August 11. It is exactly five months from March 11, the day Vidarbha’s first Covid-19 case was reported. It took 153 days for Nagpur to reach 25,000 cases with the last 5,000 coming in just four days.
Total 45 Covid-19 deaths were reported from the region on Tuesday.Thirty eight of them were from Nagpur alone. Yavatmal once again reported three deaths followed by one each in Chandrapur, Amravati, Akola, and Gondia, which reported a death after July 11.
Nagpur reported 950 new cases including 636 from Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) area, 311 from Zilla Parishad (rural Nagpur) area and three from other states. With this, Nagpur’s total cases reached 11,631. Nagpur was followed by Yavatmal (128), Amravati (102), Akola (48), Washim (42), Gondia (39), Buldhana (28), Chandrapur (26), Gadchiroli (23), Bhandara (17), and Wardha (9).
Recovery rate of Vidarbha dipped to 56.33% as only 462 patients recovered on Tuesday. No patient were discharged in Bhandara and Wardha districts. With Nagpur (146), Amravati (69), Gondia (62), Washim (50), Chandrapur (37), Yavatmal (33), Gadchiroli (25), Buldhana (21), and Akola (19) total 14,598 patients have recovered till date. Vidarbha’s recovery rate, which used to be more than state and national average, has dipped way below Maharashtra’s 68% and national average of 70%.
YAVATMAL: Since August 1, there have been 20 deaths in Yavatmal and on Tuesday three more were reported taking the toll to 51. One 50-year-old man from Wadgaon locality of the city, a 65-year-old man from Ward 1 of Umarkhed, and a 40-year-old man from the Mominpura area of Arni tehsil died. There were 128 new positive patients on Tuesday of whom 70 are men and 58 women. Total 142 persons are admitted in the isolation wards of GMC Yavatmal while 60 swab samples have been sent for testing. Yavatmal now has 1,888 cases, including 1,250 recoveries and 51 deaths. Total 587 patients are under treatment.
Meanwhile, the district administration succumbed to the pressure tactics by local BJP turned Shiv Sena leader who opted to lay on the middle of the street in Pandharkawda of Yavatmal to demand lifting of lockdown that he said had led to people of all sections suffering. He also threatened an indefinite hunger strike from Tuesday. The administration lifted the lockdown from Tuesday.
AMRAVATI: A 20-year-old youth of Morshi town today became the youngest Covid casualty of the district, posting the 90th death, even as a spike of 102 cases took the count to 3,237 on Tuesday. The number of recovered patients today reached 2,054 as 110 got discharge. This left 1,093 active cases, including 21 taking treatment in Nagpur.
AKOLA: A 51-year-old man from Ganga Nagar bypass in old city area of Akola died during treatment at GMCH late August 10 night. He was admitted a day before. This was 125th Covid-19 death of Akola district. Apart from this, 48 new cases, including 14 from rapid antigen tests, were added into the tally of positive patients. Now, Akola has 3,101 cases, including 2,444 recovered and 125 deaths. At present, 532 patients are under treatment in district.
GONDIA: A 62-year-old patient succumbed to Covid-19 in Tirora tehsil on Tuesday. While 39 new cases were registered and 62 patients recovered. Among new cases, 10 are from Gondia tehsil and eight each from Tirora, Amgaon and Arjuni Morgaon.
CHANDRAPUR: A 70-year-old senior citizen being treated at Covid hospital here died while undergoing treatment. He was suffering from serious respiratory problem and was admitted on August 2. Death toll of Covid 19 reached five in the district.
A total of 26 new patients were registered in Chandrapur and the total caseload has now climbed to 898. Meanwhile, 37 patients were discharged taking the total of cured patients to 543. This has left 350 active patients in the district.
Bhandara: District witnessed a surge of 17 new patients on August 11 taking total cases to 434. Out of 17 patients detected on Tuesday, nine are from Bhandara, three from Mohadi, and two from Lakhni tehsils. Lakhandur, Tumsar and Paoni tehsils reported one patient each. With 249 patients recovered and two deaths reported earlier, Bhandara has 183 patients under treatment. Out of these, eight were referred to Nagpur for further treatment.
WASHIM: Total 50 patients recovered from Washim and were given discharge on August 11 while 42 new patients were reported. Now, Washim district total is 998 cases, with 628 recovered. With 19 deaths (including one suicide), total 351 are under treatment.
BULDHANA: District received 226 reports on Tuesday of which 28 were positive. Positive patients are from Deulgaon Raja (4), Dusarbid (2), Buldhana (3), Malkapur (4), and Khamgaon (8). Total 21 patients recovered in a day taking number of recovered patients to 1,190 out of total 1,999 cases. With 35 deaths till date, the district has 774 patients under treatment.
WARDHA: With nine new positive cases on Tuesday the number of active patients reached 54. Among them, two are from Wardha, two from Arvi, two from Karanja, each one from Selu, Pulgaon and Deoli. In all, 286 reports are pending including 132 samples sent on Tuesday. Total 300 have tested positive in district and 237 have recovered so far. Nine have died during treatment in district so far.
GADCHIROLI: Incuding 12 CRPF Jawans from Korchi tehsil, total 23 new cases wee detected in Gadchiroli district. Total cases reached 751 while 594 have recovered. Now, 156 are under treatment.