Nagpur district crosses 90,000 positive cases, 80,000 recoveries

NAGPUR: The district on Saturday crossed 90,000 Covid-19 positive cases and also 80,000 recoveries. The number of positive cases is 3,080 less compared to the actual figure which is available on the portal of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). If it is taken into consideration, the district will surpass China (91,436 positive cases) from where the pandemic reportedly originated.
As per daily data of the District Civil Surgeon (CS), there were 540 positive cases in the district on Saturday.The total number of cases increased to 90,301.
The district is the fourth among 35 in the state after Mumbai, Pune and Thane to cross 90,000 positive cases. As far as the population is concerned, the district stands fifth.

It took 14 days for the district to go from 80,000 cases to 90,000. The span is the second-lowest in this pandemic. It is due to the decline in the number of cases since the beginning of October.
The first 10,000 positive cases were registered in 154 days, between March 11 and August 11. It happened due to slow spread of the disease following full lockdown from the third week of March to July end.
The cases started to surge from the second week of August so the span between 10,000 and 20,000 cases was 12 days. September registered the highest number of cases and witnessed a Covid peak in the district.
The number of days for each 10,000 positive cases started to decline in September. The span was 9 days which further declined to 6 days and 5 days for 30,000 to 50,000 cases respectively.
Then, the span increased to 6 days each for the next 20,000 cases. It took nine days for the positive cases to go from 70,000 to 80,000.
On October 12, TOI had reported that the number of positive cases are 2,014 more than the CS data and the ICMR portal. Now, the difference has increased to 3,080.
The error came to the fore in the press release of the state’s public health department which takes data from the ICMR portal.
The number of positive cases of the district is uploaded on the ICMR portal by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), Zilla Parishad (ZP), government and private laboratories. But still, CS is showing less number of cases in the district.
CS VD Paturkar did not respond to TOI’s call and messages.
The difference is likely to increase further. The ICMR is uploading around 20,000 positive and negative cases tested by Dhruv Laboratory in August and September. Despite it being mandatory to upload cases on the same day, the laboratory failed to do so following which NMC levied a fine of Rs5 lakh.
“ICMR started uploading cases on a daily basis in a phased manner. We are not mentioning these cases in the daily press release. We will wait for the completion of updation by ICMR and only then we will do a reconciliation,” said NMC additional municipal commissioner Jalaj Sharma.
The district also crossed 80,000 recoveries on Saturday. As per the CS data, 790 positive patients recovered on Saturday taking the total to 80,643.
It took 165 days for the district to cross the first 10,000 recoveries whereas 70,000 came in 56 days.
The recovery rate of the district is 89.30% which can be best compared with the average recovery rate of the state (85%) and India (87.78%).
The number of active cases was 6,733 (7.45%) and fatalities were 2,925 (3.24%).