Pune district records more than 2,500 new cases in 24 hours

Pune: According to the state health department, Pune district on Wednesday reported 2,507 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours

Pune: According to the state health department, Pune district on Wednesday reported 2,507 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours. It is the highest reported number in 2021. Also, two more people from Pune have lost their lives to the infection. The total count of Covid cases in the district has now gone up to 4.27 lakh of which over 4 lakh have recovered, 8,144 have been declared dead and over 18,474 are active cases undergoing treatment in hospitals or in home isolation.

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Pune city reported over 1,300 new cases which took the total count to over 2.18 lakh cases and with two more deaths, the death toll went up to 4,596. Pune rural reported 533 more cases which took the count to 1.01 lakh and with no more deaths which took the count to 2,166. PCMC reported 590 which took the count to 1.06 lakh and with zero deaths the death toll was 1,343.

Also 9,913 patients were discharged on Wednesday taking the count to 20.99 lakh Covid patients discharged after full recovery. The recovery rate in the state is 93.21%. Also, 13,659 new cases were reported in the state on Wednesday. And 54 more virus deaths were reported in the state taking the final death toll to 53,842. The case fatality rate in the state is 2.34%. Of 17,115,534 laboratory samples, 2,252,057 have been tested positive (13.16%) for Covid until Wednesday. Currently, 471,187 people are in home quarantine and 4,244 people are in institutional quarantine.