Unvaxxed 73-year-old dies in Akola; second death in December

Nagpur: A 73-year-old ailing woman from Dabki Road locality in Akola city died of Covid-19 on Sunday. This was Akola’s and also Vidarbha’s second Covid death in December. The woman, who was admitted on December 4 in the GMCH Akola, was not vaccinated. Officials said the woman was ailing with serious health complications and could not visit the vaccination centre.
Overall, the region continued a good number of Covid-19 tests despite the weekend. Nearly 10,000 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. Total 19 of them tested positive. This took Vidarbha’s caseload to 11,20,702. In Nagpur, 4 tested positive out of nearly 4,000 tests. On the other hand, 12 patients recovered from Nagpur and 17 from Vidarbha. This took the recovery count to 10,99,105. Recovery rate is 98%. The test positivity is still under 0.20% and 172 patients are under treatment. Out of them, 78 are in Nagpur district only.
In Nagpur, 2 out of 4 under-treatment patients are from city (NMC area), and 1 each from rural and other states. Out of 12 recoveries, 8 are from Nagpur city and 4 from rural.
Amravati: Three new cases — two males aged 27 from Gopal Nagar and 61 from Sai Nagar and a female aged 32 from Ravi Nagar localities — took the district's caseload to 96,198 on Sunday. One recovery took the total to 94,583. With no death reported, the number of active cases under treatment went up to 15.
Chandrapur: The Covid active figures remained stable at 13 with three detections and equal number of recoveries on Sunday. All three new patients were found in Chandrapur city. There was no casualty reported. There were 1,092 samples tested during the last 24 hours. Total sample testing has increased to 7,78,339 out of which 6,88,053 samples have been found negative. Caseload has grown to 88,872 which includes 87,316 recoveries and 1,543 deaths.
Wardha: No new case, recovery or death was reported on Sunday. The reports of all 493 tests were negative for coronavirus, maintaining caseload, recoveries and toll unchanged at 49,434, 48,101 and 1,326 respectively. The active positive patients under are three.
Yavatmal: The district saw no death reports on Sunday, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,788. Currently there are 26 active positive patients under treatment. The administration received 606 reports of which one man from Pusad was found positive. Of the 72,964 positive patients, 71,150 including one on Sunday have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.46%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is 0.17%. The administration has kept 1,761 beds for Covid patients in the hospitals across the district.
Bhandara: Another zero day was witnessed in the district on Saturday as all 453 tests were negative. Only 1 patient is under treatment here.
Gondia: After almost a week, Gondia reported 2 new cases out of 358 tests done. This took the Covid caseload to 41,237. Now, 3 patients are under treatment in the district.
Gadchiroli: Four new cases were reported in the district in last 24 hours. Total 1,293 tests were conducted. This took Gadchiroli’s total cases to 30,831. In all, 12 patients are under treatment.
Akola: Apart from a Covid death on Sunday, no sample out of the 454 tested in the last 24 hours yielded positive result. Akola has 8 patients under treatment.
Washim: Another zero day was reported on Sunday. Now, 4 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: Two of the 313 samples tested in the last 24 hours tested positive in the district. Now, total Covid cases have gone up to 87,659, while 12 patients are under treatment as on date.