Omicron reaches Akola; a Covid death on Sunday

NAGPUR: Akola district reported its first case of Omicron on Monday. Genome sequencing result of a Dubai returnee woman, who was detected Covid-19 positive on December 18, was found positive for Omicron variant. Akola GMCH officials say the woman is asymptomatic and her condition is absolutely fine as of now.

Akola also reported one death due to Covid-19 on Monday.A 60-year-old man from Rohna village near Dahihanda died during treatment. The person was not fully vaccinated. He was having serious health issues too. This was the third Covid death for Akola in December and 5th for Vidarbha.
Overall, the region reported 40 new Covid-19 cases, with 32 of them from Nagpur district alone. The region had reported more than 40 cases before this on September 2. This means Vidarbha reported 40 cases after 115 days. However, the recovery count is also intact till now. Total 11 patients recovered in the day. Vidarbha’s recovery rate is still 98%.
However, the test count, which was above 10,000 most of the days in December, came down to 7,149 on Monday due to Sunday and Christmas holiday weekend. With 40 testing positive, the test positivity rate crossed 0.5% mark for the first time in 4 months. These figures could be considered as early indicators of the onset of new wave, which is being projected.
Overall, 158 patients are under treatment in Vidarbha and 104 of them in Nagpur alone.
Wardha: The district recorded a positive patient from 145 test reports on Sunday while one patient was discharged taking the total cases to 49,442 and recoveries to 48,107 respectively. That left five active positive patients under treatment. The toll remained unchanged at 1,326 as no new death was reported.
Yavatmal: The district has no death report during the last 24 hours, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,788. Currently there are 13 active positive patients under treatment. The administration received 638 test reports of which three (one woman and two men) were found positive. All of them are from the city. Of the 72,978 positive patients, 71,177 including one patient on Sunday have recovered. The test positivity rate is 9.35%, death rate is 2.45% and daily positivity rate is 0.47%. The district has 1,766 beds for Covid patients.
Amravati: No new cases, no new recoveries and no Covid death meant that the number of active cases under treatment in the district remained constant at six. Total 645 samples were tested in last 24 hours and all came negative.
Chandrapur: District scored zero in terms of detection, recoveries as well as casualties keeping the Covid active score constant at five on Sunday. The Covid caseload too remained stable at 88,882, which includes 87,334 recoveries and 1,543 deaths. A total of 519 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours. Total testing of samples have reached 7,93,423, out of which 7,03,199 reports have been found negative.
Bhandara: Only 96 tests were conducted in the district in the last 24 hours. All of them were negative. Bhandara now has 60,109 total cases, including 58,975 recoveries and 1,134 deaths. No patient is under treatment.
Gondia: The district reported another zero day with no new case in the last 24 hours, and no recovery of Covid-19 patients. Only 39 tests were conducted. All results were negative. Now, only 2 patients are under treatment in the district and both of them in home isolation.
Gadchiroli: Total 764 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. All of them were Covid negative. Now, the district has seven patients under treatment. The district now has 30,841 total cases, 30,087 recoveries and 747 deaths reported till date.
Buldhana: Total 342 tests were conducted in the district on Monday, yielding 3 new cases. This took the number of total Covid cases in the district to 87,669. Also, two patients recovered in the day, leaving 10 under treatment.
Washim: The district continued its zero Covid record on Monday. No new patient was found despite 311 tests. No patient is under treatment in the district now.
Akola: The district reported one new case on Monday while no patient recovered. Death of a 60-year-old man took the Covid toll to 1,142. Akola has six patients under treatment now.