NAGPUR: The 11 districts of Vidarbha together reported 52 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Besides Nagpur, which has been accounting for majority of the cases, Amravati reported 13 new cases, while Gondia reported four.
Buldhana, Chandrapur, Akola and Gadchiroli also reported new cases, indicating that infections are being reported from all parts of Vidarbha, including rural and tribal regions.
It is learnt, a 60-year-old fully vaccinated person from Chandrapur died of Covid during treatment in Nagpur. The death was not added to the Covid toll on Thursday, neither in Nagpur nor Chandrapur, till the time of filing this report. As per protocol, the body was cremated at Ambazari ghat on Thursday.
“The person was obeses and had travel history to Pune. He tested negative for ‘S’ gene drop, ruling out Omicron,” a doctor said.
The districts have increased the number of tests significantly. For the second consecutive day, more than 11,000 tests were conducted in the 24 hours before Thursday. The test positivity rate (TPR) was slightly less than 0.5%. If the TPR keeps on rising, authorities may consider implementing back stricter restrictions in the region.
The number of under treatment patients in the region is 286, which is near 300 for the first time since August-end. Nagpur accounts 199 of them — 168 from Nagpur city, 15 from Nagpur rural and 16 from other districts/divisions or neighbouring states.
Nagpur district reported 28 new cases, which included 26 from Nagpur city and two from other districts/states. Four patients recovered, including three from Nagpur city. More than 5000 tests were conducted in Nagpur in a day.
Chandrapur: Two detections as against a solitary recovery on Thursday took the Covid active figure up to 7 on Thursday. The new cases were detected in Chandrapur city and Rajura town. There was no casualty reported during the day. Covid caseload has reached to 88,886, while the total recoveries amount to 87,336. Toll is 1,543. A total of 7,97,300 samples have been tested so far, out of which 7,07,307 have tested negative.
Amravati: The 1,282 samples tested in last 24 hours produced 13 new cases that took the caseload to 96,235 on Thursday. With no deaths and no recoveries, the number of active cases under treatment went up to 26.
Yavatmal: The district has neither any death nor any new positive reports during the last 24 hours, keeping the toll unchanged at 1,788. Currently there are 6 active positive patients under treatment. The administration received 645 test reports. Of the 72,979 positive patients, 71,185 including 2 on Thursday have recovered.
Wardha: No new case was reported from 402 test reports while a patient was discharged after recovery on Thursday. The caseload and toll remained unchanged at 49,444 and 1,326 respectively while recoveries increased to 48,110, leaving 4 active positive under treatment in district.
Gondia: The last 24 hours saw four out of 215 tests reporting positive. The number of under treatment patients increased to 12 with 10 of them reported in the last three days. In a relief, 11 patients are in home isolation and only one is admitted to hospital.
Bhandara: No new cases were even after conducting 308 tests in the last 24 hours. There was no recovery too. The district has only one patient under treatment.
Gadchiroli: One new patient was detected from 574 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. No recovery was reported. The number of under-treatment patients has reached 8.
Akola: Two new patients were detected from 500 tests conducted in the last 24 hour while one patient recovered. Now, the caseload is 57,914, including 56,762 recoveries and 1,142 deaths. Now, eight patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: Total 574 tests were conducted in Buldhana in the last 24 hours. Two of them tested positive. Now, 14 patients are under treatment.
Washim: No new case was reported in the last 24 hours. Only one patient is under treatment for the last three days.
