Nagpur reports double digit cases for second straight day

Nagpur: The Nagpur district reported 10 new cases on Tuesday, a double digit increase in new cases for the second day in a row. In last three days, the district has reported 27 new cases, a moderate surge as compared to other 10 districts in the region. No district other than Nagpur in Vidarbha has reported new cases in double digit in last many days.
On Tuesday, total 24 cases were reported, while 18 patients recovered from Covid-19.No death due to Covid-19 was reported in Vidarbha. Total case count reached 11,19,507. Out of them, 10,97,898 have recovered.
The test count, which had dipped up to 5,000 yesterday due to Sunday recovered on Monday and reached above 10,000. Total 10,780 tests were conducted in last 24 hours. Out of them, only 24 tested positive which means, the positive rate is still less than 0.25% in the region. Overall recovery rate of Vidarbha is above 98% which is better than the state and national average.
Total 204 patients are under treatment in the region. This number was below 200 yesterday. But as the number of recoveries was less than the number of new cases on Tuesday, it reached above 200 once again. The marginal increase in the number of new cases is expected for the next one week as people mingled while celebrating the Ganeshotsav and the immersion festivities. However, moderate rise in the new cases is acceptable.
Wardha: One patient was discharged, taking the total recoveries to 48,064. While zero positive was reported out of 311 test reports on Tuesday. The caseload and toll remained unchanged at 49,394 and 1,326 as no new death was reported. The active positive patients under treatment are two in district as on Tuesday.
Amravati: Four new cases out of the 716 samples tested took the district's caseload to 96,104 on Tuesday. Just one recovery took the total to 94,499 for a rate of 98.33. With no Covid death reported, only nine cases remained under treatment today.
Yavatmal: The district has no death reports for more than two months continuously, keeping the death toll unchanged at 1,787. Currently there are four active positive patients undergoing treatment in the hospitals. The administration received 852 test reports and all of them were found negative. Of the 72,872 positive patients, 71,081 including one on Tuesday have recovered. The district has tested 7,38,197 swab samples so far of which 6,65,271 were found negative. The test positivity rate is 9.87%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is zero. The district has 2160 beds available for the Covid patients in the GMC, DCHC and Private hospitals. They are kept vacant for want of patients.
Chandrapur: Solitary detection against four recoveries pulled the active patients down to 27 on Tuesday. District again remained free of casualty, as caseload grew to 88,706 with total recoveries amounting to 87,139.
Akola: Total 603 tests were conducted and only one of them tested positive in Akola. One patient recovered in a day. Now, 56,699 patients, out of total 57,851 have recovered from the district. Total 16 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: In all 860 tests were conducted in last 24 hours in Buldhana out of which two were positive on Tuesday. This took total case load of the district to 87,550. Five patients recovered taking the recovery count to 86,852. Total 25 patients are still under treatment in Buldhana.
Washim: One patient recovered while one more case was reported in Washim in last 24 hours. Total 5 patients are under treatment now. Out of 41,740 total cases, 41,096 have recovered from Washim while the death count is 638.
Gadchiroli: Total 833 tests were conducted in Gadchiroli in last 24 hours out of which three were positive. No patient recovered. Now, 20 patients are under treatment in the district.
Bhandara: One patient, out of the six under-treatment patients in Bhandara recovered in day. Now, five patients are under treatment. All 431 tests done in last 24 hours resulted negative in the district.
Gondia: Two out of 233 tests conducted in last 24 hours were positive in Gondia. No patient recovered. Out of total 41,220 cases, 40,504 have recovered. Nine patients are under treatment and all are in home isolation.