PUNE: The number of daily Covid-19 cases (1,131) stayed above recoveries (818) in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Thursday, with the Pune municipal limits and the rural areas reporting more infections than discharges in the last 24 hours.
The PMC areas added 333 new patients, while the rural and cantonment areas reported 628 new patients. As many as 170 new cases were added in the Pimpri Chinchwad areas as against 191 recoveries. With this, the region’s total recoveries climbed above 10.48 lakh on Thursday, while its positive caseload increased above 10.75 lakh.
As many as 21,159 samples were tested in the region on Thursday. The rural areas conducted more than 8,000 tests, while 7,791 samples were checked in the PMC limits and 4,709 in the PCMC areas.
A report released by the district health officer, Bhagwan Pawar, stated that 11 more patients succumbed to the infection in the region on Thursday. Of these, six deaths were reported in the PMC limits, two patients died in the Pimpri Chinchwad areas while three deaths were reported in the rural parts.
The region’s tally of active cases increased to 9,610 on Thursday evening. Of these, as many as 5,091 patients were being treated at various hospitals and 4,591 were in home isolation.
