At 20, June sees lowest toll; deaths likely to cross 20,000 mark in Vidarbha

NAGPUR: Even though high number of tests are being performed, the daily cases and fatalities dropped to 702 and 20 respectively in Vidarbha on Wednesday. The test positivity rate (TPR) for all 11 districts for the day stood at 1.77% while Bhandara – reporting the lowest at 7 cases from 1,893 tests — had the lowest TPR at 0.36%.
This was the lowest daily toll in the month while the cases were second lowest just a day after the earlier lowest.
Yet, Vidarbha’s Covid toll is set to cross 20,000-mark on Thursday, unless the 11 districts report less than six fatalities. Bhandara, Gadchiroli and Akola didn’t report any deaths in the day while six districts recorded not more than two fatalities. Nagpur’s five and Buldhana’s four were the highest in the day from the two revenue divisions. Among the five in Nagpur district, no death was reported from rural while only two Covid patients passed away in the city. Remaining three were not residents of the district.
Nagpur recorded 81 new cases, the district’s lowest since November 15 as per the civil surgeon’s data for the second day in a row. On November 15, 2020, the district had recorded 80 cases. However, there is vast difference in the situation then and now. Then, just 1,680 tests were performed for a TPR of 4.76% while now 10,635 tests were done for a TPR of 0.76%. Of the 81 cases, 36 were from rural and 42 from the city.
Except Chandrapur and Amravati, none of the districts reported more than 100 cases. In fact, four of them had daily cases under 30. The day’s recoveries were nearly thrice the new cases at 1,936. Now, 12,828 patients are under treatment.
Gadchiroli: No Covid death was reported and the toll remained at 729. The district reported 57 new cases and 32 recoveries. The district now has 440 active cases.
Washim: The district reported two Covid deaths. The daily cases decreased to 83 while 114 patients recovered. Death toll is 593 now and there are 812 active cases.
Bhandara: The district reported seven cases and no Covid death, leaving the toll at 1,055. Day’s recoveries were 106 and 546 active cases.
Gondia: The district reported two Covid deaths and 23 cases. It saw 44 recoveries. Number of patients under treatment is 281.
Buldhana: With whopping 4,078 tests, the district witnessed 74 new Covid cases. Four Covid deaths took place. According to official data, the district reported 138 recoveries. This left 764 active cases.
Akola: The district reported 269 recoveries against 73 cases and no Covid death on Wednesday. There are 2,127 active cases.
Amravati: A spike of 134 cases and just one death took the district's caseload to 94,624 and toll to 1512 on Wednesday. Recoveries of 402 patients saw the total reaching 90,410. This left 2,702 active cases under treatment.
Yavatmal: The district recorded two deaths which took the toll to 1,784. The administration received 3,195 test reports of which 22 (14 men and 8 women) were found positive and the remaining 3,173 were negative.
Wardha: With new 26 positive cases, the caseload of the district reached to 48,884 and after 133 were discharged, the total recoveries are 47,033.
Chandrapur: Covid cases are gradually on the rise after unlock since last three days. Wednesday saw detection of 122 new cases and recovery of 297 patients. This has left 1270 active patients under treatment. There were two deaths.