PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Monday added 410 new Covid-19 cases of Covid-19 and discharged 815 patients.
Pimpri Chinchwad recorded 73 cases, while the rural areas, cantonments and councils added 228 cases.
The PMC limits added 109 new patients. Around 483 patients were discharged in rural areas, cantonments and councils, while PMC and PCMC limits reported 167 and 165 recoveries, respectively. The tally of positive cases increased to 11,36,775 while recoveries reached 11,11,888.
A report released by the district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that 19,157 samples were tested in the region on Monday. Of them, 5,937 tests were conduced in the PMC limits and 7,163 tests were conducted in Pimpri Chinchwad.
The active cases in the region dropped to 6,113 on Monday evening. O fthem, 2,632 patients were getting treated at hospitals and 3,481 were in home isolation. The PMR reported seven Covid deaths on Monday, which included three from rural areas and two each from the PMC and PCMC limits. The region’s toll reached 18,911.
