PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) continued to add more Covid-19 cases (905) as against recoveries (703) for the second straight day on Thursday, taking its total infections and discharges above 11.29 lakh and 11.02 lakh, respectively.
The rural areas added over 500 new patients while numbers in PMC climbed above 200. The Pimpri Chinchwad reported 183 fresh cases. The PMC and PCMC limits reported less than 200 recoveries each, while the discharges in the rural parts dropped below 500.
A total of 26,934 samples were checked for the infection in the region on Thursday. These included over 11,600 tests conducted in the rural areas. The region’s positivity rate for the day stood at 3.3%.
A report by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated that six more patients succumbed to the infection in the region on Thursday. The tally of active patients in PMR rose to 7,723 on Thursday evening.
