Nagpur: Though cases and deaths continued to decline, Vidarbha’s district collectors allowed Friday’s weekly review and revision in COVID-19 to ‘break the chain’. This was the result of a fresh order issued by the state government considering the cases of delta-plus variant found in some districts.
Following the instructions of the state, all the districts of Vidarbha are now taking cautious steps towards unlocking.
Akola was the first district in Vidarbha to announce the withdrawal of Level 3 restrictions. Now, all shops will remain closed at 4 pm daily, non-essential shops will remain closed on weekends, hotel restaurants will not be allowed to hold consumers from 4 pm and only take-away service will be allowed on weekends. The wedding ceremony will be allowed in the presence of 50 guests.
Other districts of Vidarbha, including Nagpur, are yet to issue a revised ban notification.
Overall, 231 new cases were reported in the region on Friday, while 360 patients were cured. A total of 28,153 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours – more than Thursday, but less than last week’s average of 30,000. Of the total 10,95,355 cases so far, 10,72,266 patients have been cured in Vidarbha, taking the recovery rate close to 98%. The recovery rate of Vidarbha is better than the state and national average.
In the second wave, the number of patients under treatment fell below 3,000 for the first time. Currently, only 2,920 patients are undergoing treatment, which is 0.26% of the total cases. This means that most of the oxygen beds in Vidarbha are empty. But, after the recent order of the state government to give relaxation to O2 beds and test positivity parameters are no longer applicable.
The Covid casualties, which were in single-digit for the past few days, rose to 10 on Friday. These include 2 deaths each from Akola, Amravati, Buldhana and Washim – all districts of Amravati division. One death each has been reported in Bhandara and Gadchiroli of Nagpur division. Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha and Yavatmal reported no Covid deaths on Friday.
Yavatmal: For the ninth consecutive day, Yavatmal did not report any Covid death on Friday and the toll stood at 1,789. Out of 653 investigation reports received on Friday, the reports of nine have come positive. Of the 72,692 patients reported so far, 70,848 have been cured, including 11 on Friday. Presently 58 patients are under treatment. The test positivity rate is 10.73% and the case fatality rate is 2.46%. The daily positivity rate is 1.38%.
Amaravati: A spike of 38 cases, as many as recoveries and two deaths took the district’s caseload to 95,811, taking the toll to 93,665 and the toll to 1,549, respectively, on Friday. At present 597 patients are undergoing treatment.
Wardha: The district on Friday reported 21 new cases out of 1,281 reports and 22 recoveries, taking the caseload to 49,182 and total recoveries to 47,777. The death toll stood at 1,320 as no death was reported on Friday. There are 85 active cases.
Chandrapur: Zero deaths, 13 new cases and 52 recovered on Friday. While the toll remained stable at 1,524, 503 patients are under treatment. The caseload has risen to 84,618 while the number of those who have recovered has risen to 82,591.
Washim: 29 new cases were reported in the district on Friday and the same number were cured. Two Kovid also died. Now the district has a total of 41,344 cases, out of which 40,444 have been cured, a total of 617 deaths and 282 patients are under treatment.
Akola: Out of 1,640 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, 20 new cases were reported. Also 28 patients were cured and 2 patients died during treatment. Akola now has 57,529 total cases, 55,990 have been cured, 1,126 deaths and 413 patients are under treatment.
Buldhana: The district received reports of 2,997 tests conducted in the last 24 hours and 43 of them were found positive. At the same time, 42 patients were cured and 2 died. Now there are total 86,484 cases in Buldhana, 85,716 have been cured, 658 have died and 110 patients are under treatment.
Bhandara: 6 Kovid positives were found out of 540 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. Five patients were also cured in the day. The district on Friday reported one death due to Covid-19. Now the Kovid-19 toll of Bhandara is 1,126. A total of 79 patients are undergoing treatment.
Gondia: The district continues to perform well in preventing the infection of Kovid-19. A total of 5 patients tested positive out of 3,603 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. Three patients recovered, and there were no deaths. Of the total 41,106 cases reported so far, 40,358 have been cured in Gondia. Only 49 patients are undergoing treatment, which is the lowest in Vidarbha.
Gadchiroli: On Friday, 19 new cases were reported in the district, 25 were cured and one died. Now 29,238 patients out of total 30,184 have been cured in the district. The Kovid toll has reached 740. Now 206 patients are being treated in Gadchiroli.
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