Maharashtra: No case in Bhandara second time in 10 days, one death in Akola

NAGPUR: Entire Vidarbha region reported only one death due to Covid-19 on Monday. A 58-year-old man from Akola district who was admitted since June 27 died during treatment.
Remaining 10 districts reported zero deaths, which is a record since the first wave. As per the state government figures, the condition in all 11 districts is better than that witnessed after the first wave.Monday’s record decline in fatalities is an indicator.
Number of new cases reduced to 133, but this might be due to the decline in number of daily tests. As it was Sunday on July 4, and most districts are observing weekend lockdown, on-the-spot testing in market places was skipped in most of the districts. Due to this, only 13,087 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, which is less than even 50% of the daily average last week.
Bhandara district once again reported zero new cases, for the second time in the last 10 days. Gondia reported only one new case. Yavatmal, Akola, Wardha, Chandrapur also reported less than 10 new cases.
Number of recovered patients declined to 180. Now, out of 10,97,194 patients reported in Vidarbha so far, 10,75,509 have recovered, which means the recovery rate is still 98%.
On Monday, the number of under-treatment patients (active cases) came down under 1,500 for the first time, to reach 1,476. Majority of patients are in home isolation. Barring Amravati and Akola, no other district in Vidarbha is having more than 200 active cases.
Amravati: For the second successive day, the district recorded no Covid death even as a spike of 30 cases took the caseload to 96,176 on Monday. With 36 getting discharge, the number of recoveries has reached 94,262. This left 359 patients under treatment.
Yavatmal: The district reported no Covid casualty on the 17th consecutive day on Monday which kept the toll unchanged at 1,789. The administration received 250 test reports in the day of which 2 were found positive. Currently there are 30 patients under treatment. Of the 72,746 patients detected so far, 70,930 including 7 on Monday have recovered. The district’s test positivity rate is 10.65% and death rate 2.46%. The daily positivity rate is 0.80%.
Wardha: After detecting 4 Covid patients on Monday, the district’s caseload has increased to 49,254. Meanwhile, 15 patients were discharged in the day, which took the total recoveries to 47,886, leaving 46 under treatment. Also, 413 test reports were received out of which 4 from Arvi were found positive for the coronavirus infection. There was no Covid death on Monday and the toll remained unchanged at 1,322.
Chandrapur: With the detection of five new patients on Monday, the district continued to report new cases in single-digit for the third consecutive day. There were 13 recoveries and no death reported during the day. The Covid toll remained at 1,532, while the number of patients under treatment came down to 171. Covid caseload stands at 84,739, while total recoveries amount to 83,036.
Bhandara: The district reported no new case on Monday. Total 180 tests were done. Six patients recovered while no death was reported. Now, Bhandara has only 23 patients under treatment, which is lowest for any district in Vidarbha.
Gondia: Of the 1,098 reports received in last 24 hours, only one came positive in Gondia. Five patients recovered and no death was reported. Now, the district has 39 patients under treatment, with 24 of them in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: There were 312 tests in the last 24 hours and 21 returned positive. Ten patients recovered, leaving 131 under treatment. The recovery rate is 97.12% while the overall test positivity rate (TPR) is 10%. In last three weeks, TPR is below 4%.
Akola: The district reported seven new cases while 20 patients recovered. One death took the toll to 1,129. Now, 231 patients are under treatment. Of the 650 tests conducted in last 24 hours, only 139 were RT-PCR tests.
Buldhana: Number of new cases dropped to 30 on Monday, taking total to 86,970. There were 21 recoveries and no death in the last 24 hours. Now 156 patients are under treatment.
Washim: The district reported 19 new cases, 21 recoveries and no death, which took caseload to 41,497, including 40,738 recoveries and 620 deaths. There are 138 patients under treatment.