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In line with the decline in Covid cases in Pune, the city currently has one Covid patient on ventilator while only two patients are on oxygen support in hospital, health officials said. The daily Covid positivity rate in the city has dropped below two per cent with only 19 of the 1,262 individuals tested positive for the viral infection, they added.
“Only 16 of the 564 active Covid patients are currently in hospital, which is just 2.83 per cent. Moreover, there is no patient on invasive ventilator and one on non-invasive ventilator in the city, while there are just two patients on oxygen support,” said a civic health officer.
This means that 513 ventilator beds reserved for Covid patients are vacant while only two of the 4,147 oxygen beds are occupied. “Deaths due to Covid have also come down drastically with no reports of such deaths on most days. The Covid toll as of March 14 is 9,348,” he said.
The mortality rate has also dropped to 1.41 per cent with 9,348 of the total 6,61,625 patients having succumbed since the beginning of the outbreak.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has stopped its operations at the 800-bed jumbo Covid hospital in Shivajinagar and recently began dismantling the temporary structure. The civic body, however, has kept its dedicated Covid hospital in Baner operational while another dedicated Covid facility has been kept ready for treatment as per requirement.
