PUNE: Daily cases of Covid-19 dropped to 16-month low of 181 in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Monday, with areas under Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations, as well as the rural parts, reporting less than 100 cases each on the back of fewer testing.
The PMC areas added 55 new cases on Monday, while the PCMC limits added 44 and the rural areas recorded 79. As many as 444 patients were discharged in PMR in the last 24 hours, with the rural parts reporting 248 recoveries — highest in the region for the day.
As many as 11,144 samples were tested in the region on Monday, a drop of almost 6,500 than Sunday’s testing tally of 17,664. A total of 4,579 samples were checked in the Pimpri Chinchwad area, while 3,533 tests were held in the PMC area and just 2,998 in rural the parts, a report released by district health officer Bhagwan Pawar stated.
The region has so far checked over 81.81 lakh samples for the infection.
Five more patients died due to Covid in the region on Monday. One death was reported in the PMC limits, two in the PCMC area and another two patients died in the rural areas.
The region’s active caseload dropped to 3,356 on Monday evening, including 1,628 patients in home isolation.
