This story is from May 24, 2021

Vidarbha sees 4,083 cases, the lowest in second wave

The number of new Covid-19 infection cases in municipal corporation areas of Vidarbha has gone down significantly now. More than 80% cases and 91% deaths are now being reported from rural parts, especially villages.
Vidarbha sees 4,083 cases, the lowest in second wave
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NAGPUR: The number of new Covid-19 infection cases in municipal corporation areas of Vidarbha has gone down significantly now. More than 80% cases and 91% deaths are now being reported from rural parts, especially villages.
On Sunday, Vidarbha reported 4,083 new cases — lowest for the region in second wave to date. More than 51,000 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, which ensured that overall test positivity rate (TPR) remained under 10% for the fourth day on Sunday.
Out of day’s 4,083 cases, four municipal corporation cities accounted for only 842.
These include Nagpur city 300, Amravati city 359, Akola 89 and Chandrapur 94. Same trend continued in Covid-19 deaths too. At 117, lowest ever day’s toll since April 8, was reported in Vidarbha. Out of them, only 10 came from four municipal corporation cities — Nagpur 7, Chandrapur 1, Akola 2, and Amravati 0. This means, 107 deaths came from villages which account for more than 91% of total Covid casualties. As far as Nagpur district is concerned, Covid cases from Nagpur rural — 732 — were more than double of the city cases — 300 — on Sunday. Similar trend was seen all over the region.
Total 8,087 patients recovered from the infection on Sunday. This took recoveries to 9,86,945, against the caseload of 10,68,575. Recovery rate improved to 92.36%, which is better than state and national average. With 117 deaths, the case fatality rate (CFR) of Vidarbha is 1.77%, which is higher than state’s 1.59% and national 1.11%.
The number of under-treatment patients reduced further to 53,495. This is 5% of the total cases reported in Vidarbha till date. Now, only Amravati, Akola and Nagpur districts have more than 5,000 patients under treatment. Gondia district created record of lowest 29 new cases in the day, out of 2,626 tests done on Sunday.
Yavatmal: The district reported 15 deaths on Sunday, which took the Covid toll to 1,718. Of the total 6,790 reports received in the day, 322 (204 men and 118 women) were positive. Currently, there are 1,536 patients under treatment in hospitals and 1,525 in home isolation. Of the total 70,709 patients detected so far, 65,933, including Sunday’s 617, have recovered. The district’s test positivity rate is 12.17% and case fatality rate 2.43%.

Amravati: Sunday saw 637 new cases being detected, which took the district’s caseload to 88,480. Also, day’s 15 deaths, all from rural belt, took the toll to 1,373. Discharge of 1,144 saw recoveries going up to 78,541. This left 8,566 patients under treatment.
Chandrapur: The new Covid case detection continued to be low with only 355 persons testing positive on Sunday. The day witnessed 838 recoveries and 12 deaths, leaving 5,751 patients under treatment. The Covid toll has risen to 1,368 in the district now. The Covid caseload has climbed to 80,955, while total recoveries account for 73,836.
Wardha: Of the total 2,167 tests, 215 persons tested positive for coronavirus infection on Sunday, taking the total cases to 46,729. Meanwhile, 459 were discharged, which took the total recoveries to 41,654. Covid toll climbed to 1,225 after the district witnessed 6 deaths (4 men and 2 women from Wardha tehsil) on Sunday. The day’s 215 positives include 6 from other districts. New cases detected include Wardha 84, Hinganghat 34, Deoli 31, Ashti 16, Selu 13, Arvi and Samudrapur 11 each and Karanja 9.
Gondia: Only 29 new cases were reported in Gondia on Sunday despite 2,626 tests done. On the other hand, 264 patients recovered. Four patients died during treatment. Now, the district has 40,157 total cases, 38,776 recoveries and 666 deaths. Only 715 patients are under treatment in Gondia and 600 of them are in home isolation.
Akola: Day’s toll, which was above 15 for the last three days, came down to 6 on Sunday. This took the total Covid fatality to 1,010. Akola reported 408 new cases, and 617 recoveries on Sunday. With this, the caseload has reached 53,755 and recovery count to 46,332. Now, 6,413 patients are under treatment.
Washim: In all 270 new cases, 656 recoveries and 13 deaths were reported in the district. Covid fatality has suddenly increased in this part of Vidarbha in the last two days. Authorities said rural patients generally report in very serious condition, and many of them die within 24 hours of hospitalization. Now, Washim’s caseload is 38,241, recoveries are at 34,463 and toll 420. Total 3,357 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: The district reported 13 deaths on Sunday which took the Covid toll to 558. In all 554 new cases, out of 4,710 tests and 782 recoveries on Sunday took the caseload to 82,336 and recoveries to 76,985. Now, 4,793 patients are under treatment.
Gadchiroli: The district reported 168 new cases, 173 recoveries and 7 deaths on Sunday. This took Gadchiroli’s caseload to 28,710, including 26,190 recoveries and 690 deaths. Total 1,830 patients are still under treatment.
Bhandara: Despite conducting 1,181 tests in the last 24 hours, the district reported less than 100 new cases for the second consecutive day. With total 83 cases in the day, Bhandara’s caseload has reached 57,945. On the other hand, 211 patients recovered which took total recoveries to 55,878. Two deaths were reported. Now, 1,025 patients are under treatment in Bhandara.
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