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Covid caseload eases in Vidarbha as not a single district reports over 500 positive cases

Covid caseload eases in Vidarbha as not a single district reports over 500 positive cases
Nagpur: Covid-19 daily case load has gone down significantly in Vidarbha. On Thursday, not a single district, out of 11 in the region, reported more than 500 cases. Highest case load of the day was 476 reported in Nagpur district. Bhandara reported only 32 new cases out of 758 tests while Gadchiroli reported only 48 new cases.
Cases reduced significantly in Yavatmal (144 cases/5,296 tests), Amravati (455/6,084) and Wardha (167/2,012).
Overall, 2,475 cases were reported on Thursday. It is noteworthy that less than Thursday’s case load was reported only on March 4, (2,470). Since then, daily cases are constantly increasing.
Total 5,338 patients recovered in a day. Now, 10,11,683 out of total 10,72,330 cases have recovered and this took the recovery rate to 94.3% which is better than both state as well as national average.
With most districts reporting single digit test positivity rate, Vidarbha’s overall positivity dipped below 7%. Despite a government holiday on the account of Buddha Purnima on Wednesday, 40,536 tests were conducted in the region. With more recoveries than cases, the number of under-treatment patients reduced to 39,948, which is less than 4% of the total patients reported till date. Majority of the under-treatment patients are still in home isolation.
Day’s death toll was 80 on Thursday, lowest since March 27. Nagpur (16), Amravati (15), Chandrapur (12) and Akola (10) were the four districts where death toll was in double digit. All other districts reported less than 10 deaths. Bhandara and Gondia reported 1 death each, Wardha and Gadchiroli (3 each), Yavatmal 4, Washim 6, and Buldhana 9. Overall, death toll reached 19,311. Case fatality rate reached 1.80%.
Bhandara: Only 32 new cases were reported in the district out of 758 tests done in last 24 hours. 72 patients recovered in the day, while 1 death took the death toll to 1,047. Now, out of 58,376 total cases in Bhandara, 56,309 have recovered. The recovery rate is 96.45%. Total 1,020 patients are under treatment.

Gondia: The district conducted 1,170 tests out of which only 48 tested positive in last 24 hours. 121 patients recovered while 1 death was also reported. Now, Gondia has 40,504 total cases, including 39,263 recoveries and 681 deaths. Recovery rate of Gondia is 96.94%. Total 560 patients are under treatment, with 372 of them at home isolation.
Gadchiroli: 43 new cases and 250 recoveries marked Thursday in Gadchiroli. Death toll also reduced to 3 which took total deaths to 707. Now the district has 29,032 total cases, 27,069 recoveries and 1,256 patients under treatment. Recovery rate here is 93.24%.
Washim: Washim was the only district where number of cases (347) was more than the number of patients recovered (312) on Thursday. Six deaths were also reported. The district now has 39,478 cases, 36,249 recoveries and 445 deaths. Total 2,783 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: Out of 3,871 tests done in last 24 hours, Buldhana reported 338 new cases, which means less than 10% positivity rate for the second day in a row. Total 766 patients recovered while 9 deaths were also reported. Now, total 84,070 cases have been reported to date in Buldhana, with 79,379 of them recovered and 4,102 are still under treatment.
Akola: The district reported 205 new cases, 574 recoveries and 10 deaths on Thursday. Not a single of the ten deceased were from Akola municipal corporation region. All were from rural parts of district. Akola now has 54,792 total cases, 48,449 recoveries and 1,047 deaths reported to date. 5,296 patients are under treatment.
Yavatmal: Yavatmal has recorded 4 deaths on Thursday which took the toll to 1,748. The district administration has received 5,296 test reports of which 144 (92 men and 52 women) were found positive. Currently there are 2,261 active positive patients of whom 1,064 are being admitted in the hospitals and 1,197 are in home quarantine. Of the 71,426 positive patients, 67,420 including 289 of Thursday have recovered and hence discharged. The test positivity rate is 11.86 % and the death rate is 2.72 %.
Wardha: With 167 new cases, the caseload of district reached to 47,441 on Thursday. District also recorded 3 deaths and 362 recoveries, taking the total recoveries to 43,004. Active positive are 3180. Three men (aged 60, 80 and 68) from Wardha died during treatment as the toll reached 1,254. New cases were reported from Wardha (102), Deoli (50), Hinganghat (7), Arvi (5) and Selu (3) out of 2,012 test reports of Thursday.
Amravati: Even as the new cases went under 500, deaths again reached double figures on Thursday. A spike of 455 cases and 15 deaths took the caseload to 90,530 and toll to 1,414 respectively on Thursday. With 870 recoveries, the total reached 82,567 for a rate of 91.20%. This left 6,549 active cases under treatment.
Chandrapur: 220 new cases were reported, while 571 recoveries were registered on Thursday leaving 3,859 active patients. There were 12 deaths taking the toll to 1,423. Covid caseload has now reached to 82,010, while total recoveries reached 76,728.
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