Over 10k tests for third day in a row, new Covid cases lowered again

Nagpur: The administrations in all 11 districts of Vidarbha have ramped up the testing in last few days. In last 24 hours, 10,239 tests were conducted in Vidarbha region, which means over 10,000 for the third day in a row. A positive development is that the number of positive cases is decreasing daily. On December 9, the Vidarbha region had reported 22 positive cases out of 10,000-plus tests, on December 10, the number reduced to 14 while on Saturday, it further declined to 11.The test positivity rate was record low at 0.12% on Saturday.
Bhandara, Wardha, Gondia, Amravati, Akola and Washim reported zero new cases in last 24 hours. Even Nagpur reported only 3 new cases out of about 4,000 tests conducted. The data indicates that the spread is well under control and there is no need to panic because of the detection of new variant in some parts of the country.
The number of under-treatment patients which was above 175, also came down to 169 on Saturday. Out of these, 81 are in Nagpur district alone. Yavatmal has 26 patients under treatment which is second highest in Vidarbha.
As far as Nagpur is concerned, all three patients reported on Saturday were from Nagpur city. Out of seven recovered, five were from city, and two from Nagpur district.
Amravati: No new case, no new recovery and no new death marked Saturday on the Covid front. This kept the number of active cases under treatment at 13.
Yavatmal: With no deaths reported on Saturday, the toll remained unchanged at 1,788. Currently, there are 26 active positive patients under treatment. The administration received 511 reports of which three, two women and one man, were found positive. Of the 72,963 positive patients, 91,149, including one on Saturday, have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.47% , death rate 2.45% and daily positivity rate 0.59%. There are 1,756 beds now available for Covid patients in hospitals across the district.
Wardha: No new cases were detected from 502 test reports, while a patient was discharged after recovering from coronavirus, taking the total recoveries to 48,101, leaving three active positive patients under treatment. The caseload and toll remained unchanged at 49,434 and 1,326 as no new case or death was reported.
Chandrapur: Three new cases pushed the Covid active patients to 13 on Saturday. Two of these patients were detected in Bhadrawati, while another was diagnosed in Korpana. There were two recoveries, but no casualty reported during the day. A total of 1,282 Covid tests were conducted during the day. Total sample tested so far amounts to 7,77,247 out of which 6,86,734 have been found negative. The Covid caseload has grown to 88,869, out of which 87,313 have recovered while 1,543 have died.
Bhandara: After reporting one positive patient in last seven days on Friday, Bhandara once again reported zero new case on Saturday. Total 419 tests were conducted in a day. All resulted negative. Now, the district has only one patient under-treatment who was detected yesterday.
Gondia: One out of the two under-treatment patients in Gondia recovered in a day on Saturday. Now, only one patient is under treatment. As all 319 tests were negative, no new case was added into the district’s tally.
Gadchiroli: Total 1,096 tests were conducted in Gadchiroli. Only one of them tested positive. Overall case load reached 30,827 with this. Now, eight patients are under treatment because no recovery was reported in last 24 hours.
Akola: One out of the 10 under-treatment patients recovered from Akola on Saturday. No new case was reported while the district conducted 487 tests in last 24 hours. Now, nine patients are there under treatment in Akola. Six of them are in home isolation.
Buldhana: The district conducted 284 tests in last 24 hours and one of them tested positive. Three patients recovered from Buldhana in a day. Now, the district has 10 patients under treatment. Total 86,972 patients have recovered from the district so far out of 87,657 cases.
Washim: No new case was reported, neither any of the four under-treatment patients recovered from Washim district in last 24 hours. The overall case load of the district is 41,778 with 41,134 recoveries so far.