After reporting a huge jump in death count yesterday, Nagpur district on Tuesday registered 91 persons succumbing to the coronavirus in a single day. Meanwhile, though there is some fluctuation in new COVID-19 cases in the Nagpur district, the number of persons becoming corona-free is also improving.
New positive cases have continued to come between the range of 5,000 and 7,000. Today also 6,89,0 persons tested positive for coronavirus in Nagpur district. Cases in Nagpur rural has witnessed 2005 positive patients. Of course, Nagpur city continues to witness more cases. Today, 4,87,8 persons tested positive in the city. The cumulative count of positive cases to 3,36,36,0.
From the total deaths, Nagpur rural has registered 34 deaths while 50 who succumbed to the virus were the residents of the city. This has taken the cumulative death count to 6,47,7.
The number of recoveries continues to rise in the district. On Tuesday, 5,50,4 persons became corona-free taking the cumulative recovery to 2,58,19,1. Despite a good number of recoveries, the recovery rate is going down because the number of recovered persons is not matching with the number of persons testing positive. The recovery rate of the district has witnessed a further fall to 76.80%. With today’s update, the active count in the district stands at 7,16,92.