Nagpur, Buldhana report max cases of day

Nagpur: Nagpur and Buldhana districts together accounted for 82% of the day’s cases even as five districts in both the revenue divisions of Vidarbha didn’t record any new patient. So far, this month no Covid death was reported by any of the 11 districts.
The five districts Bhandara, Akola, Washim, Yavatmal, and Chandrapur performed over 2,500 tests, all of which were negative.The overall testing increased by 3,000 in Vidarbha at 10,000.
Over 300 cases were reported in the region so far this month against 309 recoveries. The increase in daily cases in Buldhana and Nagpur had health officials worried but so far the trend in not alarming. Officials said during the corresponding period last year, the region was testing far less samples and reporting higher number of cases and fatalities.
Yet, 263 patients are still active in the region with 50% present in Nagpur and Buldhana. However, those in Nagpur district are not serious and only mild symptomatic cases. Over 50 are admitted. Out of this, 19 are in AIIMS Nagpur and 11 in MLA CCC. Those shifted to AIIMS Nagpur are said to be mild symptomatic yet shifted as a precautionary measure.
Yavatmal: The district has no report of death or no new positive patients during the last 24 hours which enabled the death toll to remain unchanged at 1,787. Currently there are 9 active positive patients undergoing treatment in the hospitals. The administration has received 801 test reports and all of them were found negative. Of the 72,864 positive patients, 71,068 have recovered. So far 7,29,411 swab samples were tested of which 6,56,524 were found negative. The test positivity rate is 9.99% and death rate is 2.45%. The daily positivity rate is zero. The administration has allocated 2,168 beds for the Covid-19 patients in the GMC, DCHC and private hospitals in the district. All of them are lying vacant for want of Covid patients.
Amravati: One new case and two recoveries took the district’s caseload to 96,089 and recoveries to 94,472 on Thursday. With no death taking place, the active cases under treatment remained at 22.
Chandrapur: The district scored yet another zero in terms of detection as well as casualties on Thursday. The day, however, witnessed two recoveries taking active patients score down to 28. The caseload remained stable at 88,687, while total recoveries inched up to 87,103.
Wardha: One patient was reported positive from 319 tests on Thursday, taking active positive to 3 and caseload to 49,391. No recovery or death was reported due to coronavirus while total recoveries and toll remained unchanged at 48,062 and 1,325.
Gadchiroli: The district reported one new case and five recovered patients. The district now has 28 active cases.
Washim: The district’s cases and recovery tally and toll remained unchanged on Thursday. Death remains at 638. Active cases tally is at 16.
Bhandara: Yet another day the district didn’t report any new case, death or patient’s discharge. Active case tally also remains at 1.
Gondia: The district reported a Covid case but no recovery was recorded. Number of patients under treatment is at 8.
Buldhana: The district witnessed 12 new Covid cases. No Covid death took place. According to official data, the district reported 10 recoveries. This left 64 active cases.
Akola: The district didn’t report any new case or recovery. The active cases are 17.