Gadchiroli reports lone Covid death of region on Thursday

Nagpur: A 50-year-old man from Nagbhid tehsil in Gadchiroli died during treatment for Covid-19 on Thursday, thus becoming the second victim of the disease in the district in August. Earlier, a patient had died on August 6.
Barring Gadchiroli, no other district in the region reported death due to Covid-19. Overall, of the 15,281 tests conducted in the region, 31 came positive.It means the test positivity was just 0.20%. Wardha and Gondia reported no new cases despite collectively conducting 800+ tests.
All districts, except Amravati, reported single digit increase in new cases. Amravati saw 13 new cases in a day, only for the second time in August.
While Nagpur conducted more than 5,000 tests, near-2000 tests were done in Chandrapur, Buldhana and Amravati in the last 24 hours.
There were 28 new recoveries during the day. The number of recovered patients was less than the new cases for the first time in August.
Vidarbha’s recovery rate is now 98.15% which is better than the state and national average. Now, only 313 patients are under treatment.
Amravati: A spike of 13 new cases as against three recoveries took the district’s caseload to 96,628 and total recoveries to 95,013 on Thursday. With the district reporting no death, the toll remained at 1,562. This left 53 active cases under treatment.
Yavatmal: There was no death report on Thursday which helped to maintain the death toll unchanged at 1,787. There were 915 test reports of which two were positive. The District has eight active positive patients of whom seven are from within the district and the one is from outside the district. Of the 72,829 positive, 71,034 including one on Thursday have recovered. The test positivity rate is 10.23 % and the death rate is 2.45 %. The daily positivity rate is 0.22 %.
Chandrapur: With five new detections, the Covid caseload inched up to 88,593 on Thursday. Fourteen recoveries during the day took the number of recovered patients to 87,003. There was no casualty and toll remained stable at 1,538. There are 52 active patients left under treatment.
Wardha: District has recorded no new case, no new death due to coronavirus and no new recovery on Thursday while caseload, recoveries and toll remained unchanged as 49,386, 48,057 and 1,325 respectively. 415 test reports were received in last 24 hours while none of them tested positive.
Akola: After 569 tests, only one came positive on Thursday. No recoveries were reported. Of the 57,807 patients reported so far, 56,653 have recovered and toll is 1,136. Now, only 18 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: The last 24 hours saw 1,959 tests returning with only one new case. The caseload is 87,363. One patient recovered, taking the count to 86,662. Now, 29 patients are under treatment.
Washim: Three new patients were reported on Thursday, taking the caseload to 41,696. There were no recoveries and now under-treatment patient count is 17.
Gondia: The district reported no new cases, no death and no recoveries. The last 24 hours saw 481 tests being conducted. There are three patients under treatment, with two of them in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: From 486 tests, only three came positive. Five patients recovered in a day. One death on Thursday took the toll to 746. Now, 28 patients are under treatment.
Bhandara: Of the 527 tests done, one tested positive. No recovery was reported. Now, four patients are under treatment.