Maharashtra: All Vidarbha districts improve Covid tally, just 607 cases on Friday

NAGPUR: As expected, situation in all 11 districts of Vidarbha improved on both the important parameters — test positivity rate and number of unoccupied O2 beds on June 11. However, no district administration issued relief notification on Friday. Now, the notifications declaring some concessions from the Covid curbs are expected on Saturday or Sunday.
With only 607 new cases reported and 1,502 patients recovering in the day, the Covid-19 situation continued to improve in the region.Total 26 Covid deaths were reported in the day. With more recoveries than number of new cases, the recovery rate continued to remain at 97%, which is better than both state and national average.
Decline in new cases is significant for Vidarbha as it’s happening despite increased testing. On Friday, about 42,000 tests were done in 11 districts, including 12,000+ in Nagpur.
On the other hand, the number of patients under treatment reduced to 10,619 on Friday. With majority of them in home isolation, the number of unoccupied oxygen beds in Vidarbha has increased significantly. Due to this, all districts are now eligible for elevation in the lockdown level tally. Only Gadchiroli and Akola are the two districts which missed the level 1 eligibility by a fraction.
Of the 26 deaths, most fatalities were reported from rural areas. With villages actively participating in the ‘Covid-free village’ campaign of the state government, this condition is also set to improve further.
Wardha: There were 20 new cases, taking the tally to 48,982 on Friday. With 89 patients recovering, total recoveries are now 47,224, leaving 445 patients under treatment.
Three men from Wardha (53), Deoli (38) and Hinganghat (65) died during treatment, taking the toll to 1,313. On Friday, 2,106 test reports were received and 11 from Wardha, 3 each from Hinganghat and Ashti, 2 from Arvi and 1 from Deoli were found positive.
Chandrapur: There were 122 new cases, while 171 patients were discharged, leaving 1,128 patients under treatment. With two more deaths, the toll has grown to 1,492. The Covid caseload is now at 84,087, while total recoveries now amount to 81,467.
Amravati: One hundred and seven new cases and seven deaths took the district's caseload to 94,857 and toll to 1,523, respectively on Friday. Recoveries were more than triple the new cases at 334, that took the total to 91,032. This left 2,302 active cases.
Yavatmal: The district reported no death on Friday and hence, the toll remained at 1,786. The administration received 2,130 test reports, of which 24 were found positive. Currently there are 580 patients under treatment, of whom 161 are admitted in hospitals and 419 are in home isolation. Of the 72,528 total cases so far, 70,185 — including 66 on Friday — have recovered. The test positivity rate is 11% and the death rate is 2.5%. The daily positivity rate is 1.1%.
Bhandara: After reporting new cases only in single digits for the last three days, the district’s witnessed 24 Covid patients on Friday. Total 1,621 tests were conducted in the day. Now, the district has total 59,256 cases and with 90 patients recovering in the day, total 57,800 of them have recovered. No Covid death has been reported in the district this week since Tuesday. Now 401 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: The district continued rampant testing even on Friday. Total 4,219 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours and only 18 of them (0.48%) tested positive taking the Covid caseload to 41,020. With 22 patients recovering on Friday, total 40,064 have already recovered. The district’s recovery rate is now near 98%. Total 259 patients are under treatment, and 193 of them in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: The district reported 16 new cases from over 1,000 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. Total 68 patients recovered in the day while 2 patients died during treatment. Now, Gadchiroli has 29,845 total cases, 28,736 recoveries and 1,108 deaths, till date. The district has only 376 patients under treatment now.
Akola: Nearly 2,000 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours and 75 were found positive in the district. On the other hand, 262 patients recovered. Now, Akola has 57,033 total cases, 54,185 recoveries, 1,108 deaths and 1,740 patients under treatment. For the first time during second wave, the number of under-treatment patients is below 2,000 in Akola.
Buldhana: Covid-19 conditions here are rapidly improving and the district jumped from level 3 to level 1 in the past one week. Even on Friday, only 53 out of 3,816 samples tested in last 24 hours were positive. On the other hand, 112 patients recovered. An 82-year-old man from Motala died on Friday. Now, Buldhana has 85,878 cases, 84,831 recoveries, 641 deaths and 406 patients are under treatment.
Washim: The district reported 59 new cases, 97 recoveries and a death on Friday. This took the Covid caseload to 40,960, including 39,627 recoveries and 597 deaths. Washim has 735 patients under treatment.