Delta+ patients in Gadchiroli, Bhandara and Amravati have recovered

Nagpur: Respective district administrations in Vidarbha region released details about the delta plus patients detected on Monday.
All the 21 delta plus patients detected in Vidarbha have recovered and are doing well. Contact tracing exercise of these cases has been completed in Gadchiroli and Bhandara districts while its under way in Nagpur and Amravati.
As per the district health officer Dr Dilip Ranmale, three delta plus patients were found in Amravati Municipal Corporation area, one from Chandur Bazar, one from Warud and one from Morshi tehsil. All of them are already in contact with the health department officials.
In Bhandara, the lone patient was from Bhandara only. He was asymptomatic and recovered in June 2021. No one among the contacts of this patient was found infected.
Out of six patients detected in Gadchiroli, three were from Chamorshi Tehsil, 2 from Aheri and 1 from Gadchiroli Tehsil. All of them have recovered. As far as Nagpur is concerned, contract tracing of 5 patients is under way.
The administration has stated that there’s no need to panic as all the patients were from June-July and they have already recovered. As far as the delta plus variant is concerned, it is not as fatal as the delta variant which was prevalent in the region during the second wave.
Vidarbha region reported 24 new cases on August 24. On the other hand 45 patients recovered. Total 14,210 tests were conducted in the region in the last 24 hours. No death was reported for the fourth day in a row in the region. Now, out of 11,19,325 cases, 10,97,718 have recovered at 98% recovery rate. All 11 districts in Vidarbha have more than 97% recovery rate now.
With more recoveries and fewer cases, the number of under-treatment patients in the region reduced to 249. Majority of them are under-treatment at home.
Akola: Total 532 tests were conducted and none of them tested positive. Now, only 10 patients are under-treatment.
Washim: Only 1 new patient was detected while 5 patients recovered in a day on August 24. Now, only 9 patients are under-treatment. Washim became the 5th district to have less than 10 patients under treatment.
Buldhana: All the 2,151 tests conducted in the last 24 hours tested negative and 8 patients recovered. Now, 19 patients are under-treatment.
Gadchiroli: Eight new patients were detected out of 569 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. Two patients recovered. Total 746 deaths have been reported till date. Total 28 patients are under treatment.
Bhandara: Two patients were detected out of 437 tests done in last 24 hours. Seven patients are now under treatment.
Gondia: One more zero day was reported. Now, four patients are under treatment in the district.
Yavatmal: There were no deaths and no positive patients. Currently, there are 9 active positive patients undergoing treatment in hospitals.
Amravati: Four new cases against five recoveries took the district’s caseload to 96,649 and recoveries to 95,040 respectively on Tuesday.
Wardha: Two were discharged after recovery while no new case was reported. Recoveries increased to 48,060.
Chandrapur: Active patients dropped to 40 with just two detections and 12 recoveries on Tuesday. There was no casualty during the day.