PUNE: More number of patients recovered (1,396) in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Wednesday as against addition of 1,025 new cases. With this, the tally of active cases in the region dropped below 9,000 to 8,972.
Recoveries in the rural areas increased to 950 on Wednesday, as many as 250 patients recovered in the PMC limits and 185 in the PCMC areas. Among the new additions, the rural and cantonment areas recorded 604 cases while the PMC and PCMC limits added 249 and 172 infections, respectively.
As many as 4,000 patients were in home isolation in PMR till Wednesday evening, while 4,972 were being treated at various hospitals, a report released by the district health office stated.
The tally of active patients in rural areas was at 5,668, while the PMC and PCMC limits had 2,348 and 912 active patients, respectively.
A total of 21,516 tests to detect Covid-19 were conducted in the region on Wednesday. Over 8,000 samples were checked in the rural parts and the PMC limits each. Over 29 lakh sample have been checked in PMC limits so far, while over 16 lakh in Pimpri Chinchwad and 17 lakh in rural areas. The region reported 11 more deaths due to Covid-19 on Wednesday, taking its toll to 18,359.
Travel advisory
Passengers travelling to Kolkata from Pune, Mumbai and Chennai would need a negative RT-PCR test report not older than 72 hours from August 8 even if they were fully vaccinated, stated an order of the government of West Bengal. The Pune airport authorities confirmed it on Wednesday.
