This story is from August 10, 2020

District crosses 300 Covid deaths, last 200 reported in just 11 days

District crosses 300 Covid deaths, last 200 reported in just 11 days
Nagpur: The Covid-19 death toll of the district has crossed the 300-mark. The district on Sunday registered 23 deaths to take the number of fatalities to 315.
It took 141 days (March 11 to July 29) for the district to cross 100 fatalities while, alarmingly, the next 200 deaths were reported in just 11 days (July 30 to August 9).
The district had registered first positive case of novel coronavirus on March 11.
By June end, district’s case fatality rate (CFR) was 1.66%. It increased to 2.27% when the district crossed 100 deaths. At that time, CFR of India was 2.23% while 3.62% of state and 3.98% of world.
As on Sunday, CFR of the district was 3.21% which is well above the country’s CFR (2.01%) and slightly less than state (3.45%) and world (3.73%).
The current scenario is even more worrying for the district. Of the total 315 deaths, 189 (60%) were registered in first nine days of August.
Among 35 districts in the state, the district is 10th to cross 300 fatalities despite being on 5th position as far as population is concerned. On the day the district had crossed 100 deaths, it was 12th in state and 2nd in Vidarbha after Akola.
The highest 6,799 deaths have been registered in Mumbai, followed by Thane-3,008, Pune-2,728, Jalgaon-611, Solapur-580, Nashik-569, Aurangabad-545, Raigad-510 and Palghar-424.

With population of around 90,000, Kamptee town has registered highest 21 deaths in the district. The town also leads with 752 positive cases.
With around similar population, Mominpura, Timki, Hansapuri and Golibar Chowk areas in the city have registered 17 deaths each. Of the total deceased, over 75% were patients with comorbidities and majority of them were reported in the critical stage.
Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) Dedicated Covid Hospital (DCH) registered 148 deaths while 864 recovered/discharged and 237 are under treatment. Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) DCH recorded 144 deaths while 953 recovered/discharged and are 370 under treatment.
The AIIMS DCH has not registered a single death. It has discharged 297 patients and 44 are under treatment.
DCHs at five private hospitals have registered 23 deaths with having 237 patients recovered/discharged and 211 are under treatment.
Guardian minister Nitin Raut has announced four-T programme — tracking, tracing, testing and treating — for controlling the deaths. “All who develop any type of symptoms should immediately go for testing. Majority of deaths have occurred due to late reporting at hospitals,” he said.
Municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe has started 21 centres for ‘Walk-in test for Covid-19’ in the city. “Target is to increase number of tests every day. Deaths can be controlled if positive patients are detected at an early stage and given treatment from initial phase. Isolation of positive patients at early stage will also help in containing spread of the disease,” he said.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has also started contacting high-risk persons and testing them at nearest centre. The high-risk persons comprising senior citizens, those with comorbidities, pregnant women etc are considered as the most vulnerable to this disease. They were identified and their contact numbers taken by the NMC during door-to-door survey conducted in April.
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Anjaya Anparthi

Anjaya Rajam Anparthi, 33, is a principal correspondent with The Times of India, Nagpur edition and looking after civic beat. He also likes to write stories from power and mining beats. He is a fond lover of city’s environment and highlight stories related to trees, greenery, rivers, lakes, sewage system, water treatment plants, and pollution-level. The issues related to civic amenities takes him to various parts of the city, slum areas, posh localities and meet citizens, social activists, NGOs, corporators and political leaders. Daylong visit to the NMC’s administrative offices makes him easy in learning various planning and developments of the city. He too likes to visit the developmental projects being undertaken under JNNURM Scheme once in a week. Maintaining a good contact with 145 corporators and officials, he like to highlight various issues related to the city spread in over 217 sq.km.

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