Reconciliation in Washim adds 117 deaths to Vidarbha’s Covid toll

NAGPUR: Washim’s health department did reconciliation of Covid-19 deaths in the district on Monday, which led to addition of a staggering 117 fatalities to its tally, and subsequently Vidarbha too.
“The data for deaths in the district and outside it in the last few days is being updated. Accordingly, we included 117 deaths which happened in the last one month but were not included in the district’s tally earlier,” said civil surgeon Dr Madhukar Rathod.
The reconciliation exercise took Vidarbha’s toll on Monday to 160. Actually, there were 43 deaths in the region, lowest so far in the second wave. Three deceased were patients who were referred to Nagpur from other states/divisions, which means 40 patients from Vidarbha died on Monday.
Except Nagpur (10) and Washim, all other districts reported less than 10 deaths. Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli reported one death each while Akola and Yavatmal 4 each. Amravati and Buldhana reported five deaths each, while the daily toll in Wardha and Chandrapur was six each. Rural parts of these districts have seen a significant drop in fatalities.
New cases declined to 1,511, lowest for the month of May, owing to significant fall in testing (29,262) on Sunday.
On the other hand, 4,791 patients recovered in a day. Of the 10,80,446 Covid-19 patients reported in Vidarbha so far, 10,31,485 have recovered for recovery rate of 95.4%. Vidarbha’s recovery rate is higher than both state and national average.
Overall, the number of under-treatment patients reduced to 27,883. Now, Nagpur is the only district to have more than 5,000 patients under treatment. Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli have less than 1,000 patients under treatment.
Akola: Of the 3,164 tests conducted in last 24 hours, 156 came positive, taking the caseload to 55,677. With 411 recoveries on Monday, the total reached 50,257. Four deaths during the day increased the toll to 1,069. Now, 4,351 patients are under treatment.
Washim: There were 114 new cases and 272 recoveries. Reconciliation exercise added 117 deaths to take the district’s toll to 578. The caseload is 40,063, including 37,326 recoveries. Now, 2,158 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: The district received reports of 2,394 tests out of which 113 came positive. On the other hand, 901 patients recovered on Monday. Out of 84,778 patients reported till date, 82,343 have recovered. Five deaths on Monday took the toll to 606. Now, 1,829 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: The district reported 52 new cases while 87 patients recovered. The caseload is 40,717, including 39,690 recoveries and 689 deaths. There are 338 patients under treatment.
Gadchiroli: There were 33 new cases, lowest in Vidarbha for the day, while 170 patients recovered. With one death on Monday, the toll reached 719. Out of the 29,335 patients reported so far, 2,7838 have recovered and 778 are under treatment.
Bhandara: There were 83 news cases, which took the caseload to 58,765. After 84 recoveries, the total reached 56,755. With one death on Monday, the toll reached 1,054. Now, 956 patients are under treatment.
Chandrapur: There were 179 new detections and 553 recoveries on Monday, leaving 2,598 patients under treatment. The day also witnessed six death taking the toll to 1,447. Covid caseload has reached 82,784, while total recoveries account for 78,739.
Wardha: District recorded 40 cases out of 1,768 test reports on Monday. Six deaths took the Covid toll to 1,279. After 367 were discharged, total recoveries have gone up to 44,686, leaving 2,169 patients under treatment.
The Covid caseload reached 48,144 with 15 each new cases from Wardha and Deoli, 6 from Hinganghat, 2 from Arvi and 1 each from Karanja and Samudrapur. Two men and four women from Wardha died due to coronavirus during treatment.
Yavatmal: The district witnessed 4 deaths on Monday which took the Covid toll to 1,767. Of the 4,780 test reports received in the day, 111 (70 men and 41 women) were found positive. Currently there are 1,484 patients undergoing treatment in hospitals — 672 in hospitals and 812 in home isolation. Of the 71,924 patients detected so far, 68,676, including Monday’s 272, have recovered. Test positivity rate of the district is 11.56% and the death rate 2.45 %. The daily positivity rate is 2.32 %.
Amravati: Fall in new cases, deaths and the number of patients under treatment on Monday augurs well for the district. With 311 new cases, five deaths in the day and 4,961 patients under treatment is as much a happy sign as 845 recovered on Monday. The caseload is now at 92,148, Covid toll 1,454 and total recoveries 85,733 (93.04%).