17 corona patients were found in Nagpur district in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of daily patients in this year. The sudden surge has raised a concern in authorities about the situation.
A total of 96 suspects were tested in Nagpur, 31 from urban areas and 65 in rural areas, and 1 outside the district. Of these a total of 17 patients were found to be infected with Corona virus.
Nagpur district had become Corona free for quite some time. But since, the last few days, the concern has increased as the number of patients has increased rapidly in Pune district.
Due to the addition of these new patients, the total number of corona patients in the city has now reached 4,50,942 out of which 1,71,573 are from the rural areas, and 10,003 from outside the district that brings the number to 5,87,518 patients.
On Tuesday, a total of 13 patients including 8 from the city, two from the rural areas, and three from outside the district have become free of corona virus. Therefore, the total number of corona free patients in the city has reached 3,99,841 and 1,68,934 from the rural areas, and 8,332 from outside the district have become corona free taking the total patients free of the disease to 5,77,107.
On Tuesday. There were 53 active corona virus patients in the city including 39 in rural areas, and 3 from outside the district. Among them, 14 patients are in the critical category who are being treated at various hospitals. While 39 patients are in home isolation. Although, the number of admitted patients is 26%, the administration claims that many of them have mild symptoms.