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After 2 months, Bhandara district reports no death due to Covid-19

After 2 months, Bhandara district reports no death due to Covid-19
Nagpur: Bhandara, on Friday, became the first district of Vidarbha region to report zero Covid-19 death since the second wave of the pandemic began. The graph of Covid-19 cases and deaths at Bhandara, which has reported more than 700 deaths in the second wave, has been dropping rapidly.
Only 84 new cases were reported on Friday, despite 1,421 tests being conducted.
All other districts in Vidarbha are also reporting more or less the same trend. Cases are going down, death toll is also reducing and the recovery rate is improving rapidly.
On Friday, total 5,034 new cases were reported in the region out of 58,789 tests done in last 24 hours. This also shows that overall test positivity rate is under 10% for the second day in a row. Recovery count reduced a bit to 8,798, but is substantially more than the number of new cases. The region now has total 10,51,957 cases, including 9,69,922 recoveries. Vidarbha’s recovery rate surpassed 92% mark on Friday, which is better than state and national average.
Overall, 132 deaths were reported in the region on Friday. Majority of deaths and new cases are still coming from rural areas of Vidarbha. On Friday, Nagpur city reported 8 deaths, Akola city (6), Amravati city 4, and Chandrapur city reported zero deaths. This means, only 18 out of 132 deaths came from municipal corporation areas. Remaining 114 came from rural parts of Vidarbha. Total death toll of the region reached 18,681. The month of May accounts for 4,174 of them.
Due to more tests and less positive cases, the test positivity rate dropped under 10% in Vidarbha. The number of under-treatment patients also decreased to 61,958, which is less than 6% of total cases. Gadchiroli, Gondia and Bhandara districts now have less than 2,000 patients under treatment. Barring Nagpur, no other district in the region has more than 10,000 patients under treatment.
Akola: 503 new cases were reported on Friday out of 4,033 tests. Against this, 530 patients recovered, and 17 deaths were reported, 11 of them from rural Akola. The district now has 6,608 patients under treatment.

Washim: The district reported 382 new cases, 428 recoveries and 9 deaths on Friday. Now, Washim has 37,659 cases of Covid-19, with 33,219 of them recovered and 393 deaths. Total 4,046 patients are still under treatment.
Buldhana: Out of 5,038 tests done in last 24 hours, Buldhana reported 655 new cases. While 711 patients recovered in the district on Friday, five patients died during treatment. This took total case load of Buldhana to 81,190, recoveries to 75,379, deaths to 541, and 5,270 patients are still under treatment.
Gondia: Test count increased to 3,361 in Gondia on Friday, but only 130 of them tested positive. With this, total case load of Gondia reached 40,023. On the other hand, 500 patients recovered in a day while 4 died. Gondia has 1,478 patients under treatment now, 917 of them are under home isolation.
Gadchiroli: 204 new cases, 376 recoveries and 13 deaths were reported in Gadchiroli on Friday. The death toll in this tribal district shows that the spread is still serious in rural and tribal parts of Vidarbha. Gadchiroli’s total death toll has reached 670 now. Total 1,932 patients are under treatment.
Bhandara: Only 84 new cases, and no deaths were reported in Bhandara on Friday. This happened after more than 2 months. 211 patients recovered in a day. Total cases reached 57,800, including 55,364 recoveries, 1,038 deaths and 1,398 patients under treatment.
Amravati: A spike of 893 cases and 17 deaths took the district’s caseload to 87,071 and toll to 1,338, respectively on Friday. The day also saw 1,016 recoveries, taking the count to 76,305. This left 9,428 active cases under treatment.
Yavatmal: The district recorded seven deaths, 355 new cases and 464 recoveries on Friday. The cumulative caseload is 70,099, including 64,874 recoveries and 1,687 deaths. Currently, there are 3,539 patients under treatment.
Chandrapur: There were 520 new cases detected and 14 deaths on Friday. The day also witnessed 940 recoveries, leaving 6,957 patients under treatment. The cumulative toll has reached 1,339. Caseload stands at 80,223, including 71,927 recoveries.
Wardha: The total case count reached 47,773 with addition of 308 new cases. There were 13 deaths on Friday, taking the toll to 1,305. Meanwhile, 463 got discharged and total recoveries are 40,828, leaving 4,248 patients under treatment on Friday.
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