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Almost 60 new COVID-19 cases were reported from Pune district over a 12-hour period of May 24, as the cumulative case count (including deaths and recoveries) amounted to 5,485, authorities said.
“As many as 59 new cases were reported since Saturday night until today (Sunday) morning,” said Pune District Health officer (DHO) Bhagwan Pawar.
Pune reported another wave of 250 positive cases on May 23, along with seven deaths to take the district out of the total of deaths to 264.
Of the total of 5,485 cases in the district, only 2,329 were active in the present, while as many as 2,902 people had been discharged so far.
40 new cases in Pimpri-Chinchwad
A worrying factor was the rise in more than 40 new cases in Pimpri-Chinchwad, that has been, until now, managed to check the spread of the contagion. The new cases include a doctor, a nurse, as well as to other police.
“The number of cases in the Anandnagar area has increased rapidly. This is mainly after a provider involved in the illicit liquor trade contracted the virus, after entering in Pune infected Yerwada area. He has infected several people who are mostly residing in the vicinity of the slums,” said Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) Commissioner Shravan Hardikar, talking to The Hindu.
According to figures given by the Pune Zilla Parishad of the Department of Health until the afternoon of Saturday, there were 2,270 active cases still in various hospitals across the district, of which 1,906 are receiving treatment in hospitals of the city of Pune, 135 in Pimpri-Chinchwad, and 229 in Pune rural areas.
As many as 207 among these were in a critical condition.
Dr. Pawar, said that until Saturday, the samples of a total of 48,201 individuals had been tested in the district of Pune that 40,429 samples came back negative. A total of 4,405 people that were currently held in quarantine facilities in the district.
Along with Pune out of the total of victims, the number of dead in Pune division — which includes the districts of Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Solapur along with Pune – has risen to 241, with Solapur reports of 26 deaths, district of Satara the recording of two, and Kolhapur and Sangli had been informed of each one so far.
Meanwhile, an increase in 28 new was reported from Aurangabad district to make their cumulative case counts to 1,276, authorities said.
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