PUNE: Daily Covid-19 cases outpaced recoveries in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Saturday.
As many as 936 people tested positive for the virus on Saturday, pushing the region’s progressive caseload to 11,03,950. At the same time, 853 patients were discharged, pushing the region’s total recoveries to 10,77,034, as per the daily report issued by the district health office
Eleven people succumbed in the region on Sunday — five in Pune Municipal Corporation limits, one in Pimpri Chinchwad, and five in the rural pockets. This took PMR’s death toll to 18,576.
As many as 28,556 samples were tested in PMR on Saturday. With this, Saturday’s positivity rate for the entire region stood at 3.28%.
So far, 67,25,573 samples have been tested in PMR. PMC tested 8,733 samples (total 30,54,624), Pimpri Chinchwad conducted 4,086 tests (17,03,446), the rural parts carried out 12,850 tests (total 16,03,850), municipal councils accounted for 2,020 tests (total 3,15,826) and the cantonments tested 137 samples (total 47,827). The district health officials said that sample testing in rural parts of Pune Metropolitan Region — clocking the highest per day — has increased since past few days and has consistently remained over the 10,000-mark.
As of Saturday, there were 8,340 active cases in PMR — 4,464 patients were being treated in hospitals, while 3,876 people had opted for home isolation.
Pune Municipal Corporation recorded 221 new cases and 254 recoveries, while Pimpri Chinchwad added 168 patients and reported 147 discharges. As for the rest of the region — the rural belt accounted for 468 cases and 380 recoveries, municipal councils added 72 patients and discharged 69, and cantonments had seven new cases and three discharges.
