Doctor, 32, on Covid-19 service dies in Chandrapur

Nagpur: A 32-year-old doctor deployed at Warora sub-district hospital in Chandrapur district died of coronavirus infection on Friday. This is first death of frontline Covid-19 warrior who got infected while on duty.
Deceased doctor was native of Rajura in Chandrapur district. He was on contract under National Health Mission and working at Covid Care Centre in Warora since its inception.He developed symptoms on August 6 and had tested positive. He was shifted to Covid Care Centre at forest academy in Chandrapur. His condition deteriorated by August 12 and he was shifted to ICU at Covid Hospital in the city. He breathed his last on Friday afternoon.
Guardian minister Vijay Wadettiwar has expressed his condolence to the family of deceased doctor. He stated that administration officials, medical officers and full-time frontline workers were dedicatedly serving the patients. They should also take care of their own health. District collector Ajay Gulhane, who himself is in isolation, has extended his condolence and called upon the medical officers and staffers to take due care while handling the patients.
Vidarbha region reported 40 Covid-19 deaths on August 21. Nagpur once again was highest with 28 deaths. These include 24 from Nagpur city, two each from Nagpur district and other states. Amravati reported four deaths, Washim and Akola two each, while Chandrapur, Bhandara, Wardha and Yavatmal reported one death each. Vidarbha’s toll reached 1,083.
Number of new cases is growing every day. On Friday, 1,677 cases were reported, a new high. These include Nagpur (1,228), Amravati (118), Chandrapur (57), Wardha (47), Gondia (44), Yavatmal (40), Bhandara (35), Washim (35), Buldhana (34), Akola (33), and Gadchiroli (6). Vidarbha’s total cases reached 39,982.
For the second day in a row, recoveries were more than 1000. With Nagpur (700), Amravati (103), Yavatmal (66), Washim (53), Akola (34) Gondia (29), Bhandara (19), Buldhana (18), Chandrapur (15), Gadchiroli (15), and Wardha (14), total 1,066 recovered – taking total to 22,470. Recovery rate of Vidarbha is 56.87%, still less than Maharashtra and national average both of which are more than 70%.
AMRAVATI: Four Covid deaths and a spike of 118 cases today took the district’s toll to 107 and case count to 4,334. A 20-year-old youth from village Shirala in Chandur Bazar was among the four who died. He joined a youth of same age from Morshi, whodied on Aug 11, as the youngest Covid casualty of the district. Besides him, a 48-year-old female from Lokmanya square in Walgaon, a 74-year-old male from Ambavihar in Ravi Nagar locality here and a 60-year-old male from Ambagate breathed their last on Friday.
With 103 patients getting discharge today, the number of recovered patients reached 3,118. This left 1,109 active cases, including 27 taking treatment in Nagpur and 321 in home isolation.
The rural belt today reported 26 cases that took its count to 1157.
CHANDRAPUR: A spike of 57 new cases taking the Covid-19 total to 1,306 on Friday. In all 15 new patients were discharged during the day raising the total of to 866. This has left 458 active patients under treatment in district. Death toll has reached 13. New found patients include 22 from Chandrapur city, 14 from Ballarpur, seven from Bhadrawati tehsil, three each from Rajura and Ghugus, four from Korpana and one each from Sindewahi and Bramhapuri tehsils.
AKOLA: The district reported two deaths on Friday. A 74-year-old man from Balapur Naka old city in Akola, who was admitted in critical condition on August 19, died on Friday. A 42-year-old woman from Barshi Takli who was admitted since August 17 also died. This took total number of deaths in Akola to 143. Akola conducted 434 tests on Friday, out of which 33 tested positive. Now, Akola has 3,388 Covid-19 cases, 2,914 of them have recovered, and 331 are under treatment.
WASHIM: A 69-year-old man from Karanja Lad who had tested positive in Akola on August 15 died during treatment. Another 53-year-old man from Shirpur Jain who had tested positive in Aurangabad and died on August 18 has been added to Washim district’s tally. Now, Washim has 25 deaths, including one suicide. On August 21, total 35 persons tested positive and 53 recovered. Washim has 1,352 total cases, 962 recoveries, and 365 patients under treatment.
YAVATMAL: A 60-year-old man from Ambedkar Ward in Pusad tehsil died in Yavatmal. This took total toll of district to 65. 40 new patients tested positive while 66 recovered and were discharged. With this, Yavatmal district case total reached 2,524, including 1,664 recovered and 795 under treatment. Of these, 620 are admitted in GMCH while 175 are in home isolation.
BHANDARA: One patient died during treatment in Bhandara district. This was second day in a row when Bhandara reported a Covid-19 death and its toll has reached 11. Total 35 new patients were reported while 19 recovered. Bhandara now has 730 patients with 440 recovered. Total 279 patients are under treatment.
GONDIA: 44 new cases were added to the tally of district while 29 patients defeated corona. Of the new infected, 40 hail from of Gondia alone and remaining are from Tirora and Arjuni-Morgaon tehsils. Now, Gondia has 947 cases with 696 recovered and 12 deaths. Total 239 patients are under treatment.
WARDHA: A 77-year-old man from Arvi died due while 47 more persons tested positive on Friday. 14 patients recovered were discharged. This was the second day when large number of Covid patients were reported in district. Now the total active cases have reached 175. They are from Pulgaon (13), Selu (11), Wardha (6), Hinganghat (6), Karanja (5), Arvi (3) and Ashti (3). 265 test reports were received on Friday. The toal count reached 559 with 372 recoveries.
GADCHIROLI: Six persons tested positive while 15 recovered on Friday. Due to this, number of Covid-19 patients under treatment in Gadchiroli is down to 116. The district has 872 Covid-19 cases so far with 755 recoveries.
BULDHANA: Total 35 new cases were detected in Buldhana while 18 patients recovered on Friday. This took total cases in district to 2,471, including 1,589 recoveries and 41 deaths. Now, 841 patients are under treatment.