Nagpur, Buldhana report single-digit new cases for 3rd consecutive day

Nagpur: The spell of limited but sure increase in number of new Covid-19 cases in Nagpur and Buldhana districts appears to have ended this week. Both the districts, for the third day in a row, have reported new cases in single-digit despite conducting significant number of tests.
Overall, Nagpur reported 8 cases after conducting 4,692 tests on Friday, while Buldhana reported 2 new patients out of 1,073 tests done in the last 24 hours.Recoveries also increased in these two districts which suggest that the spike wasn’t the beginning of the projected ‘third wave’.
Overall, Vidarbha reported 19 new cases on Friday. Bhandara, Amravati, Akola, Gadchiroli and Wardha reported zero cases. Total 11,396 tests were conducted in all 11 districts of the region. The test positivity rate (TPR) of all districts was below 0.5%.
No Covid death was reported in Vidarbha on Friday. Overall, 1 patient from other state has died due Covid-19 in Vidarbha in September so far. The Covid-19 curve is firmly stuck to the baseline in rural parts of the region. Cases are coming from some pockets of urban Vidarbha.
Total 192 patients are under treatment in all 11 districts, with highest 69 in Nagpur district alone. In Nagpur, institutional quarantine is must for all patients. So, all are either in Covid Care Centres (CCCs) or in hospitals. In other districts, majority of the patients are in home isolation.
Yavatmal: The district reported no Covid death on Friday, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,787. Currently there are 6 patients under treatment. Total 1,052 test reports were received in the day, of which 3 were positive. Of the 72,871 patients detected so far, 71,078, including one on Friday, have recovered.
Amravati: One new case out of 576 samples tested took the district’s caseload to 96,099 on Friday. Recoveries and deaths drew a blank keeping the total recoveries constant at 94,490 and toll at 1,563. This left 14 patients under treatment.
Chandrapur: With just two detections and four recoveries on Friday, the number of patients under treatment dropped further to 28. No casualty was reported during the day keeping the toll unchanged. Total 87,128 patients have recovered so far out of total 88,696 cases.
Wardha: No new case, no recovery nor Covid casualty was reported from the district on Friday, thus the caseload, recoveries and toll remained unchanged at 49,394, 48,063 and 1,325, respectively. The number of patients under treatment is 4. Total 386 test reports were received in the day.
Gondia: Out of 312 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, three were found Covid positive in the district. This took the district’s caseload to 41,214. With 2 patients recovering in the day, 40,504 of them have recovered till date. Gondia now has 3 patients under treatment, 2 of them in home isolation.
Bhandara: All 416 tests conducted in the district in the last 24 hours were negative for Covid infection. No patient recovered on Friday. Now, four patients are under treatment in the district.
Gadchiroli: Out of 709 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, not a single person tested positive in Gadchiroli. One patient recovered on Friday. Now, out of 30,752 total cases, 29,993 have recovered in the district, while Covid toll is at 746. Total 13 patients are under treatment.
Akola: No sample out of 677 tested in the last 24 hours was Covid positive in the district. One patient recovered on Friday. Now, out of 57,849 total cases, 56,696 have recovered till date, and 17 are under treatment.
Washim: One new Covid patient and two recoveries marked Friday in the district. This took total cases to 41,736 and recoveries to 41,092. The district’s Covid toll is 638. Now, only 5 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: Total 1,073 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in Buldhana and 2 of them turned out to be Covid positive. Two patients recovered on Friday. Now, 27 patients are under treatment.