70 deaths added in Bhandara post reconciliation

Nagpur: Bhandara district, which was reporting zero Covid-19 deaths from last 15 days, added 70 deaths to its toll on June 22. Authorities claimed that the Co-Win portal got the data reconciliation on June 21, after which these 70 deaths were added to the district’s tally. This was the second such incident in Vidarbha so far. Earlier this month, Washim had added 120 deaths to its tally after reconciliation.Overall death toll of the region has surged to 20,143.
Excluding Bhandara’s 70 deaths, the region reported only 7 deaths on Tuesday. Gondia, Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Washim, and Wardha reported no deaths. Nagpur and Akola reported 2 deaths each, while Chandrapur, Amravati and Buldhana reported 1 each.
After only 15,000-odd tests on Sunday, the number of tests increased to nearly 25,000 on Monday. Out of them, 254 samples tested positive. Total 594 patients recovered from Vidarbha in a day. Now, 10,70,906 patients out of total 10,94,609 have recovered at 97.8% recovery rate. Vidarbha’s recovery rate is better than state and national average.
Number of under treatment patients reduced to 3,559 on Tuesday, which is less than 0.4% of the total cases reported. Only four districts – Nagpur, Amravati, Akola and Chandrapur — have more than 500 active cases now. Fewer active cases indicate more unoccupied hospital beds.
Bhandara: Only 1 sample out of 747 tested in last 24 hours was positive in Bhandara district on Tuesday. Apart from the 70 deaths added due to reconciliation, no fresh death due to Covid-19 was reported on Tuesday. Death toll of Bhandara reached 1,125. Now, 102 patients are under treatment with only 17 of them hospitalized.
Gondia: Three out of 2,715 tests were positive in Gondia on Tuesday. Total 4 patients recovered from Covid-19. Now, the district has 41,089 cases and 40,334 recoveries. No death was reported. Gondia now has only 56 patients under treatment, out of which 37 are recovering in home isolation. Gondia’s recovery rate is above 98%.
Gadchiroli: The district reported 27 new cases out of 814 tests done in last 24 hours. Total case load reached 30,121. With 33 recoveries in a day, 29,174 of them have recovered. Gadchiroli’s recovery rate is 96.8%. Total 209 patients are under treatment.
Akola: 29 tested positive out of 1,448 tests conducted in last 24 hours in Akola. Two patients – a 63-year-old man and a 35-year-old man, died during treatment. This took Akola’s death toll to 1,122. Still, 710 patients are under treatment in Akola. Until now, 55,750 patients out of 57,452 total cases have recovered.
Buldhana: Total 2,754 test reports were received on Tuesday in Buldhana out of which 40 tested positive to take total case load to 86,333. With 49 patients getting recovered in last 24 hours, 85,578 of them have recovered. Buldhana had exactly 100 patients under treatment on Tuesday.
Washim: With 29 new cases and 33 recoveries on Tuesday in Washim, the district now has 41,291 cases, 40,350 recoveries and 615 deaths on record. No death was reported on Tuesday. Total 325 patients remain under treatment.
Yavatmal: The district witnessed no Covid death on the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday, thus keeping the toll unchanged at 1,789. Of the 1,005 test reports received in the day, 11 were found Covid positive. Currently there are 62 patients under treatment. Of the 72,656 patients detected so far, 70,808, including 15 of Tuesday, have recovered.
Wardha: The district recorded 18 new cases and 17 recoveries on Tuesday. The caseload is now 49,135 and recoveries 47,702, leaving 96 patients under treatment. The district’s toll is 1,320. Total 1,215 test reports were received in the day, while 11 from Karanja, 3 from Wardha and 1 each from Hinganghat, Arvi, Ashti and Selu were found positive.
Amravati: A spike of 59 cases and one death took the district’s Covid caseload to 95,689 and toll to 1,543, respectively, on Tuesday. With 102 patients getting discharged from hospital, total recoveries have reached 93,436 for a rate of 97.65%. This has left 710 patients under treatment.
Chandrapur: New Covid patient count in the district dropped to just seven with 12 out of 15 tehsils reporting zero cases on Tuesday. There were 39 recoveries and a lone death during the day. Covid toll has risen to 1,519, while 609 patients are under treatment. Covid caseload amounts to 84,574, while total recoveries stand at 82,446.