Barring Nagpur, all Vidarbha districts report low cases even after increased testing

Nagpur: The 11 districts of Vidarbha together once again conducted more than 10,000 Covid tests on Thursday and detected only 12 new infections. Of them, nine cases were from Nagpur.
The region reported 13 recoveries, with Nagpur alone contributing 11. This means, barring Nagpur, the Covid-19 spread is well under control in all other districts.
As far as last 24 hours are concerned, eight districts reported zero new cases.Only Nagpur, Bhandara and Yavatmal reported new cases.
The test positivity rate of Vidarbha is just 0.11%. Recovery rate is more than 98% consistently. Case fatality rate is 1.9%.
Now, 158 patients are under treatment in the region. Only Nagpur (64), Amravati (20) and Yavatmal (24) have 20 or 20+ patients under treatment. Six districts have less than 10 patients under treatment. Most of the under-treatment patients are in home isolation as they don’t have any serious symptoms.
In Nagpur, 4,189 tests were conducted. Of the nine new cases, seven were from Nagpur city (NMC), and one each from Nagpur rural (district) and other state. Seven of the 11 recoveries were from city limits while four patients recovered in rural Nagpur. Now, 64 patients are under treatment in the district.
Yavatmal: The district has reported no death on Thursday, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,788. Currently there are 24 active positive patients under treatment. The administration received 558 test reports of which one woman was found positive. Of the 72,968 positive patients, 71,156 including one on Thursday have recovered. The test ppsitivity rate is 9.45%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is 0 16%. The district has 1,765 beds for Covid patients in its hospitals across the district.
Amravati: No new case, no recovery and no death saw a safe day on Covid front on Thursday. Total 708 samples were tested today. This left 20 cases under treatment.
Wardha: No new positive case from 426 test reports, no new recovery or death was reported on Thursday. The caseload, recoveries and toll remained unchanged at 49,434, 48,101 and 1,326 respectively. The active positive patients under are three in district.
Chandrapur: The Covid active figure remained stable at 15, as there was no new cases nor any recovery on Thursday. The day also remained casualty free. Caseload and total recoveries too remain constant at 88,887 and 87,319 respectively. None of the 1,318 Covid tests conducted during last 24 hours turned out to be positive. A total of 7,82,716 samples have been tested so far, out of these 6,92,461 have been found negative.
Akola: The last 24 hours 512 tests conducted and all returning negative. There was no recovery. The caseload is 57,906, including 56,760 recoveries and 1,141 deaths. Only five patients are under treatment.
Washim: There was neither a new case nor recovery in the district on Thursday. The caseload remains 41,778, including 41,136 recoveries and 639 deaths, leaving two patients under treatment.
Buldhana: One of the eight under-treatment patients recovered on Thursday. All 306 tests resulted negative. Of the 87,660 patients reported so far, 86,978 have recovered. Seven patients are under treatment.
Gondia: All 217 tests conducted in the last 24 hours came negative. No recovery was reported, leaving three patients under treatment. Now, the district has 41,237 cases, including 40,526 recoveries.
Gadchiroli: All the 1,278 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, came negative. There was no recovery, keeping the count to 30,834 after 30,075 infections and 747 deaths. Now, 12 patients are under treatment.
Bhandara: Two new cases were reported in the last 48 hours. Now, number of under-treatment patients has increased to three. The district has seen 60,109 cases, 58,973 recoveries and 1,133 deaths.