PUNE: Daily Covid-19 recoveries outpaced fresh cases in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Sunday.
As many as 756 people tested positive for the virus on Sunday, pushing the region’s progressive caseload to 11,04,706. At the same time, 925 patients were discharged, pushing the region’s total recoveries to 10,77,959, as per the daily report issued by the district health office
Ten people succumbed in the region on Sunday — six in Pune Municipal Corporation limits, one in Pimpri Chinchwad, one in municipal council areas and 2 in the rural pockets. This took PMR’s death toll to 18,586.
As many as 25,307 samples were tested in PMR on Sunday. With this, Sunday’s positivity rate for the region stood at under 3%%. So far, 67,50,880 samples have been tested in PMR. PMC tested 8,885 samples (total 30,62,243), Pimpri Chinchwad conducted 4,086 tests (17,09,275), the rural parts carried out 10,526 tests (total 16,14,376), municipal councils accounted for 1,300 tests (total 3,17,126) and the cantonments tested 33 samples (total 47,860).
As of Sunday, there were 8,161 active cases in PMR — 4,337 patients were being treated in hospitals, while 3,824 people had opted for home isolation.
