This story is from September 17, 2021

Other state patient dies in city, Vid’s first Covid fatality in Sept

Other state patient dies in city, Vid’s first Covid fatality in Sept
Nagpur: A patient referred to Nagpur from a neighbouring state in a critical condition tested positive for Covid-19 here and died during treatment on Thursday. With this, Vidarbha reported the first Covid-19 death in September. No other district reported death on Thursday.
None of the patients hailing from Vidarbha has died in September so far.
Number of new patients in the region is steadily declining.
On Thursday, more than 11,000 tests were conducted in the region and 22 came positive. Wardha, Gondia, Amravati and Washim reported zero new cases.
Overall, 33 patients recovered in a day. Now, out of 11,19,394 patients reported till date, 10,97,791 have recovered in Vidarbha which means recovery rate is more than 98%.
As new cases have been less than recoveries this week, the number of under-treatment patients in the region has reduced significantly.
For the first time since July 2020, the number of under-treatment patients in Vidarbha reached below 200 on Thursday. Now, 190 patients are under treatment in the region. Four districts have less than 10 patients under treatment.
Wardha: Two more positive patients from Hinganghat and Wardha have increased the active positive cases to 4 and caseload to 49,394 on Thursday. The new cases were reported from 378 test reports. The recoveries and toll remained unchanged at 48,063 and 1,325 respectively as no new recovery or death was reported.

Chandrapur: There were just 30 active patients left in district after three detections and five recoveries on Thursday. The day once again saw no casualty, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,540. Covid caseload has now inched up to 88,694, while total recoveries grew to 87,124.
Yavatmal: The district has no death report on Thursday, keeping the death toll unchanged at 1,787. Currently there are four active positive patients undergoing treatment in the hospitals. The administration received 759 test reports of which one person was found positive. Of the 72,868 positive patients, 71,077 including one on Thursday have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.92%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is 0.13%.
Amravati: No new cases, no fresh recoveries and no deaths for the second successive day on Thursday ensured that the number of active cases under treatment also remained at 13 for the second consecutive day. All the 457 samples tested today tested negative for Covid.
Gondia: Of the 182 tests conducted in last 24 hours, none came positive. The caseload remained 41,211. There was no recovery on Thursday, keeping the count at 40,502. Only two patients, both in home isolation, are under treatment.
Bhandara: The district reported one new case after 649 tests on Thursday, taking the caseload to 60,092. Now, six patients are under treatment.
Gadchiroli: Only two of the 731 tests conducted on Thursday came positive. One patient recovered in a day. Of the 30,752 patients detected so far, 29,992 have recovered, leaving 14 under treatment.
Akola: Of the 662 tests, four came positive on Thursday, taking the caseload to 57,849. With five recoveries in a day, the count reached 56,695. The toll so far is 1,136. Now, 18 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: Three new cases and nine recoveries were reported on Thursday. Now, the district has 87,537 cases, 86,837 recoveries and 673 deaths, leaving 27 patients under treatment.
Washim: No new patient was reported, while two patients recovered on Thursday. Six patients are under treatment. Of the 41,735 patients reported so far, 41,090 have recovered.
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