Nagpur Face Highest Deaths in the Second Wave at 54
Of these, 33 were registered within the municipal limits, while 17 were from rural areas of the district. Four patients who died Saturday were from out of the district. The district’s highest death toll was 65 in September of last year. The daily positive case count, however, dropped from 4,094 (17,625 tests) to 3,688 (16,535 tests).
The district’s total death toll since the start of the pandemic to date is 4,873, while the cumulative number of positive cases has risen to 2,14,850.
Up to 3,227 patients recovered from the disease on Saturday, bringing the cumulative recovery to 1.72,634. The district has 37,343 active cases to date, 27,550 of them in the municipal area.
Buldhana remains the next major hotspot in Vidarbha, recording 1,130 new cases on Saturday. Akola (476), Yavatmal (418), Amravati (396), Washim (327), Chandrapur (223), Wardha (205), Bhandara (200), Gondia (100), and Gadchiroli (37) were other affected districts.
The region recorded its highest deaths with 75 in the second wave on Saturday. The only difference between the first and second waves, however, is that the region had more than 100 deaths including around 3,000 new cases on any given day during the first wave. Saturday’s deaths have added to 7,200 new cases.
Furthermore, during the first wave, the deceased patients belonged to different age groups, including the young and the middle-aged. In the current wave, the majority are in the age group 70 and over, and of those, they were hospitalized just 24 hours earlier. For example, at the Nagpur Government Hospital and Medical College, 230 patients died from March 1 to March 26. Of them, 39 were brought in dead and 48 were hospitalized 24 hours earlier. At the Indira Gandhi Government School of Medicine, 175 people died in the corresponding period. Of them, six were taken dead and 47 were hospitalized 24 hours before.
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