Three deaths in Gadchiroli, Vidarbha toll reaching 5,000

NAGPUR: The Covid situation in Gadchiroli district, which is one of the least affected districts in Vidarbha, is turning serious while the other districts are in a recovery phase. Gadchiroli reported 3 deaths and 105 new cases on Friday. In all, Vidarbha reported 32 deaths taking the toll to 4,980.
Deaths occurred in all the 11 districts of Vidarbha after a long time.With Nagpur (13), Gadchiroli (3), Akola (3), Gondia (2), Chandrapur (2), Amravati (2), Buldhana (2), Washim (2), Bhandara (1), Wardha (1) and Yavatmal (1), Vidarbha’s case fatality rate remained around 2.70% which is higher than Maharashtra (2.63%) as well as the national average (1.51%).
The number of new cases is declining in Vidarbha. On Friday, 1281 cases were reported — Nagpur (465), Chandrapur (185), Amravati (107), Gadchiroli (105), Gondia (95), Bhandara (90), Buldhana (82), Yavatmal (66), Wardha (44), Akola (28) and Washim (14). The caseload has now reached 1,83,849.
Once again, recoveries were more than the new cases. In all, 1490 patients recovered in a day — Nagpur (683), Amravati (159), Chandrapur (123), Gondia (114), Wardha (80), Washim (74), Bhandara (72), Gadchiroli (57), Buldhana (57), Yavatmal (44) and Akola (27). Now, 163161 patients have recovered in Vidarbha. The recovery rate of Vidarbha is 88.74%.
GADCHIROLI: A 40-year-old man from Etapalli, a 61-year-old man from Gadchiroli and a 65-year-old man from Chandrapur district died while undergoing treatment in Gadchiroli on Friday. This took the death toll of the district to 46. With 105 new cases, Gadchiroli’s total caseload surpassed the 5,000-mark. The number of recovered patients in a day is 79. Gadchiroli now has 5,078 cases and 4,181 of them have recovered till date. The recovery rate is 82.36.
AKOLA: More than 300 tests were performed in a day and only 28 tested positive. Three deaths were reported which took the toll to 270. Akola now has 8,206 cases, 7,459 recoveries and 477 patients are under treatment.
BULDHANA: Out of the 800 test reports, 82 were positive taking the number of cases to 8,876. In all, 57 patients recovered taking their number to 8,107. With two deaths on Friday, the tally has touched 119. The number of patients under treatment is 650.
WASHIM: The district reported 14 new cases, 74 recoveries and two deaths. Washim’s caseload reached 5,545, including 4,821 recoveries and 123 deaths. Nearly 601 patients are under treatment.
BHANDARA: The number of patients under treatment in Bhandara once again surged beyond 1,000 and reached 1014. Total 90 new cases were reported on Friday. A patient died while undergoing treatment taking the death toll to 199. Total 72 patients have recovered taking the number to 6,664.
GONDIA: The district witnessed 95 new positive cases, 114 recoveries and two more fatalities. The district’s caseload is now 9,114 and death toll 117. The district’s test positivity rate is at an all time high of 13.20%. Total 1,029 patients are under treatment in Gondia.
CHANDRAPUR: On Friday, 185 new cases were detected in the district taking the Covid -19 total to 14,387. With the death of two patients, the toll has risen to 213. The day also witnessed the discharge of 123 patients taking the number of recoveries to 11,137. There are now 3037 active patients under treatment in the district. A total of 1,13,765 samples have been tested so far and 97,825 have been tested negative.
YAVATMAL: One death, a 60-year-old man from Darwha, was recorded on Friday. In the last 24 hours, 501 test reports were received of which 66 tested positive and 435 negative. The number of active positive patients is now 399. The district has 9822 positive patients of whom 8723 are negative. On the same day, 44 patients were discharged.
AMRAVATI: Even as the number of recoveries outscored new admissions, the district continued to record deaths on Friday. As against 159 recoveries, the district recorded 107 new cases and two Covid deaths.
While the new cases took the caseload to 15,839, the day's recoveries took the count to 14,530 for a recovery percentage of 91.74.
Two deaths during treatment took the toll to 357, leaving 952 active cases that included 505 in home isolation.
WARDHA: A 60-year-old man from Hinganghat died while undergoing treatment. In all, 44 new cases and 80 recoveries were registered in the district.
Out of 801 test reports, 44 tested positive and the total number of cases crossed the six thousand mark (6,020). The cases were registered in Wardha (28), Hinganghat (10), Deoli and Selu (2 each) and Karanja and Samudrapur (1 each).
Active positive patients reduced to 602 after 5225 patients were discharged after recovery. The death toll reached 193.