August’s first Covid deaths in Nagpur, Akola

Nagpur: Akola and Nagpur districts, on Thursday, reported their first respective Covid-19 deaths in the month of August. In Nagpur, a patient from within Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) limits died during treatment while in Akola, an unidentified man who was found dead tested positive for Covid-19.
Covid test positivity rate (TPR) reached a new low in Vidarbha on Thursday, with only 36 out of more than 17,000 samples testing positive in the last 24 hours.The TPR reached 0.20%, which is a strong indicator that the region’s Covid-19 graph is now at its baseline.
No district in Vidarbha reported a double-digit addition in the number of new cases. With 36 new cases, the caseload reached 11,18,790. On the other hand, 43 patients recovered, which took the recovery aggregate to 10,96,996. The recovery rate is slowly but surely improving. As recoveries were more than new cases, the patients under treatment reduced to 440.
Number of daily tests increased in most districts including Nagpur, which conducted 6,362 tests in a day. Chandrapur, Amravati, and Buldhana also conducted more than 2,000 tests. As Akola, Gondia and Chandrapur are on alert after detection of delta plus variant in some samples there, the authorities have increased contact tracing of the positive cases. Bhandara and Gondia stayed in contention of becoming Covid-free districts.
Wardha: No new cases or deaths were reported in the district on Thursday. With the discharge of a patient, the recoveries reached 48,050, leaving seven patients under treatment. The caseload is now 49,382 and toll 1,325.
Chandrapur: There were nine cases and three recoveries on Monday. With no casualty during the day, the toll remained at 1,537. With 86,994 patients recovered out of 88,559, there are 78 patients left under treatment.
Amravati: Fifteen recoveries and four new cases were reported on Thursday, taking the total number of recoveries to 94,973 and caseload to 96,593 respectively. There was no death. This left 58 patients under treatment.
Yavatmal: There was no death in the last 24 hours, which kept the toll unchanged at 1,787. The administration received 967 test reports of which there was no new positive case. Of the 72,820 patients so far, 71,026, including two on Thursday, have recovered.
The district has tested 7,06,291 swabs so far, of which 6,33,211 have been negative. The test positivity rate is 10.31% and the death rate is 2.45%. The daily positivity rate remains at zero. The district has 2,166 beds for Covid patients that are in GMC, DCHC and private hospitals.
Bhandara: A patient who got cured last month, but somehow was not counted in the tally, was added in Bhandara’s case count on Thursday. This reconciliation added one patient and one recovery in Bhandara on Thursday. But this made no change in the number of under-treatment patients, which has been zero for the last three days. Bhandara conducted 399 tests.
Gondia: One new case out of 418 tests conducted in last 24 hours was reported in Gondia. One patient recovered too. This kept the number of under-treatment patients unchanged at two. Both of them are in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: One new case and five recoveries marked Thursday in Gadchiroli. Overall, the number of cases reached 30,648 and recoveries to 29,869. Now, 34 patients are under treatment here.
Akola: Out of 781 tests, four were positive in Akola. Six patients recovered. This took the caseload to 57,799 and recoveries to 56,620. An unidentified person who was found dead in Akola tested positive for Covid-19, which took the toll to 1,135. This leaves 44 patients under treatment.
Buldhana: Out of 1,969 tests, seven were positive in Buldhana. One patient recovered. Now, 67 patients are under treatment here, which is the highest in Amravati division — even greater than the worst-hit Amravati district which has 58 patients under treatment now.
Washim: One new case and one recovery kept the number of under-treatment patients unchanged in Washim at 12.