Below 500 cases reported in first 15 days of Sept

Nagpur: Bhandara district, which had been reporting negligible Covid-19 cases for the last many days, saw five new patients on Wednesday. Bhandara is the third district to register a spike after Nagpur and Buldhana where cases have increased to double digit at regular intervals.
Overall, Vidarbha daily case tally remained low at 25 as against 43 recoveries.No death took place in the region on Wednesday.
Between August 26 and Tuesday, Bhandara had recorded only three new cases. With detection of five new cases on Wednesday, the number of patients under treatment has increased to five.
Gondia, Amravati and Washim didn’t record any new case.
This month, the region has recorded below 500 cases even after passage of 15 days. With an average 8,500-9,000 tests being performed daily, the region has seen 446 cases and 513 recoveries this month so far. The first 15 days of August had seen 556 new cases.
Nagpur district once again reported cases in double digit. Among the 10 new cases, five were from city, three from rural and two from outside district.
Washim: No new case was recorded and the toll remained unchanged at 638. Active cases tally is at eight after discharge to one more patient.
Bhandara: The district reported five new cases from 453 tests. No death took place and two patients got discharged. Five patients are under treatment.
Gondia: The district didn’t report any new case, discharge or death. Now, two patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: The district witnessed three new Covid cases. There was n Covid death. The district reported 14 recoveries. This left 33 active cases.
Akola: The district reported a new case but no patient recovered. The active cases are 19.
Gadchiroli: The district reported two new cases and one patient recovered. It has 13 active cases.
Yavatmal: There were no deaths nor new positive patients in the last 24 hours, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,787. The administration received 940 reports on Wednesday and all of them were found negative. Currently, there are only 4 active positive patients undergoing treatment in hospitals. Of the 72,867 positive patients, 71,076 have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.93 %, death rate 2.45 % and daily positivity rate zero.
Amravati: No new cases, no recoveries and no deaths meant the number of active cases under treatment in the district remained 13 on Wednesday. None of the 449 samples tested came positive, keeping the caseload constant at 96,098. Recoveries also remained at 94,490 and toll 1,563.
Wardha: There were zero positive cases from 286 test reports. After recovery of one patient, active positive remained 2 in the district. The caseload is 49,392 and recoveries 48,064. The toll remained unchanged at 1,325 as no deaths were reported.
Chandrapur: The figure of active patients dropped to 32, with a solitary detection and three recoveries on Wednesday. No casualties kept the toll unchanged at 1,540. A total of 87,119 patients have recovered out of the 88,691 infected so far.