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Nagpur crosses 10,000 cases, 300 deaths as Aug surge continues

Nagpur: City on Friday crossed 10,000 Covid-19 positive cases and 300 deaths. Alarmingly, nearly 66% of positive cases and 74% deaths happened in just 14 days of August.

On Friday, the city registered 935 positive cases, taking total to 10,658. The city is third in state by population after Mumbai and Pune.

Among 27 municipal corporations in the state, city is 11th to cross 10,000-case mark.

The city registered 22 Covid-19 positive deaths on Friday taking total to 316. Nagpur is 12th city in state to cross 300 deaths.

Mumbai is having 1.28 lakh positive cases and 7,036 deaths followed by Pune- 76,645/1,985, Pimpri-Chinchwad- 32,612/570, Kalyan-Dombivali- 26,685/571, Thane- 23,757/846, Navi Mumbai- 22,011/538, Nashik- 16,738/384, Vasai-Virar- 14,639/390, Aurangabad- 12,116/472 and Mira-Bhayandar- 10,633/354.

In deaths, Solapur is ahead of the city. Till end of July, the city was on 15th position but has now surpassed Akola, Bhivandi-Nizampur, Ulhasnagar, Panvel and Solapur in positive cases.

The city is first among four municipal corporations in Vidarbha to cross 10,000 positive cases and 300 deaths. Earlier, Akola was ahead.

The situation in the city was satisfactory till end of July. There were 485 cases by end of full lockdown on May 31. Central and state governments started easing lockdown from June 1. Cases increased to 1,233 by end of June and to 3,645 by end of July. 7,013 (65.8%) cases were registered in 14 days of August.

Total number of positive cases in the district was 14,495 as on Friday which means 3,837 were from Nagpur Rural and other districts.

As far as deaths are concerned, there were only two in April followed by eight in May, two in June and 71 in July for a total of 83. In August 233 (73.73%) deaths have been registered so far.

Total number of fatalities in the district was 447 on Friday with 73 coming from Nagpur Rural and 58 from other districts.

Municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe told TOI, “Positive cases are on the rise due to violations of Covid-19 guidelines and can be controlled with cooperation from public. Various measures have been implemented to control deaths. A majority of deaths are due to late reporting. Testing has been increased to 4,000 per day and will rise to 5,000 per day. This is being done to identify cases in early stage and give treatment that can prevent death. Citizens should get done test whenever they have any symptom. Testing is being done at 21 centres across the city.”

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