20 new cases in Vidarbha, 12 of them in Nagpur district

Nagpur: Vidarbha region reported 20 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, including 12 from Nagpur district alone. One of them is a woman, who had travelled to London. She has been admitted to AIIMS Nagpur and doctors are waiting for the reports of genome sequencing of her samples.
Similarly, three foreign-returned symptomatic tourists have been admitted as suspected Covid-19 patients.Apart from Nagpur, Gadchiroli and Buldhana reported 3 new cases each, while Chandrapur and Yavatmal reported 1 new case each. All other districts reported no cases in the last 24 hours.
In the meanwhile, Maharashtra government on Friday declared night lockdown rules for the entire state and district collectors are expected to issue orders to that effect soon. In short, the year-end parties and gatherings are not going to happen this time too.
Overall in Vidarbha, nearly 11,000 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. With 20 of them positive, the positivity rate is 0.20%. As on Friday, 112 patients are under treatment in the region, including 57 of them in Nagpur alone. No death was reported due to Covid-19 in Vidarbha. So far, December has reported only 4 Covid deaths, including 2 of those unvaccinated.
As far as Nagpur is concerned, more than 4,000 tests were conducted and 12 of them were found Covid infected. Nine of them are from Nagpur city (NMC limits), and 3 from Nagpur rural. Out of the 4 patients who recovered in the last 24 hours, 3 are from city and 1 from rural. Out of the 57 under-treatment patients, 47 are from city.
Wardha: No new positive case was detected from 406 test reports, while a patient was discharged on Friday. The caseload remained unchanged at 49,441 and recoveries increased to 48,106, leaving five active positive under treatment. There was no report of any casualty while toll remained unchanged at 1,326.
Yavatmal: The toll in the district remained unchanged at 1,788 as no death was reported in last 24 hours. At present there are 11 active positive patients under treatment. Out of 803 test conducted in the day, only one (a man) from Arni tehsil was found positive. Of the 72,974 positive patients, 71,175 including two on Friday have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.36%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is 0.12%. The administration has 1,768 beds currently for Covid patients.
Amravati: While three new recoveries brought down the number of active cases under treatment to just nine, none of the 895 samples gave any new case on Friday. The total recoveries have now reached 94,602.
Chandrapur: Solitary detection and no recovery took the Covid active patients to seven, on Friday. The day again remained casualty free. Caseload has increased to 88,881 while total recoveries remained constant at 87,331. Death toll is 1.543.
Akola: No new case was reported in the district on Friday. Now, only 5 patients are under treatment.
Washim: The district continued its zero Covid-19 tag for another day. No new patient was reported. There is no under-treatment patient in Washim from last 10 days.
Buldhana: Out of 562 patients, 3 tested positive. Now, the caseload has reached 87,665. As no patient recovered in the day, total 8 patients are under treatment.
Gondia: One out of 3 under-treatment patients recovered on Friday. Now, only 2 patients are there in the district. No new case was reported in the last 24 hours.
Gadchiroli: Three new patients were reported in the district on Friday out of 986 tests conducted. This took the Covid caseload to 30,841. Now 7 patients are under treatment.
Bhandara: All 380 tests conducted in the last 24 hours were negative. Now, the district has 60,109 total cases, including 58,974 recoveries and 1,134 deaths due to Covid-19. Only 1 patient is under treatment.