Nagpur civic chief tests positive, district Covid toll crosses 800

Nagpur’s acting Joint Commissioner of Police Nilesh Bharne also tested positive for the infection on Tuesday.

The district’s Covid-19 death toll, meanwhile, crossed 800 on the day, with 46 deaths being reported from the city, four from rural parts and two deaths of patients from outside the district. Of the 814 deaths recorded in the district so far, 688 have occurred in August.

The total number of cases was 22,225 on Tuesday, of which 16,933 are from within the city limits.

However, the recovery rate in the district has improved sharply after plummeting to less than 44 per cent over the past fortnight. With 1,034 recoveries on Tuesday, The overall number has now gone up to 13,068, which brings the recovery rate to 58.8 per cent. It, however, continues to be below the national and state average.

Elsewhere in Vidarbha region, Yavatmal recorded two deaths while Wardha, Bhandara and Chandrapur recorded one death each on Tuesday, taking the region’s toll to 1,272. The region’s cumulative Covid-19 case total has crossed 46,000, of which about 28,000 have recovered.