PUNE: Daily Covid-19 recoveries outpaced fresh cases in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Saturday.
As many as 686 people tested positive on Saturday, pushing the region’s progressive caseload to 11,35,634.
At the same time, 1,035 patients were discharged, pushing the region’s total recoveries to 11,10,111, as per the daily report issued by the district health office.
Nine people succumbed in the region on Saturday — four in Pune Municipal Corporation limits, two each in Pimpri Chinchwad and the rural pockets, and one in municipal council areas. This took PMR’s death toll to 18,891.
As many as 26,132 samples were tested in PMR on Saturday, pushing the day’s positivity rate for the region to 2.6%. As of Saturday, there were 6,764 active cases — 3,074 patients were being treated in hospitals, while 3,690 were in home isolation.
