District witnesses constant fall in Covid-19 recovery rate Nagpur district is witnessing constant fall in Covid-19 recovery rate. There was a time when district recovery that was far behind the national average crossed it and went ahead by over 2%. Unfortunately the situation did not remain the same. National average came from behind and crossed districts recovery rate. At present there is a gap of almost 1.5 per cent between national recovery and districts one. On Friday the recovery rate witnessed further fall to 92.20%. The national average is 93.64% which is much better. In last five days the recovery number has not crossed 300 mark. On Friday though the recovery is slightly better at 262 it has not touched 300. The cumulative recovery reached 102151. The low recovery resulted in rise in active cases which has crossed 5000 mark to 5002. The Covid-19 positive cases too are increasing. On Friday in one single day 456 persons tested positive for coronavirus out of which 79 are from Nagpur rural and 377 are from Nagpur city. This has taken cumulative number to 110114. The number of testing has registered good number on Thursday but on Friday it came down by 3000. Fridays testing number was 6978 with citys testing stood at 5413 and Nagpur rural registered 1525 testing. Number of deaths reported are 7 of which citys deaths are 6 while Nagpur rural registered one death. With these the cumulative deaths reached 3143. The samples examined through RT-PCR were 5294 while 1525 were through Rapid Antigen Test. The cumulative number reached at 769331. Apart from the samples of Nagpur district the people from Nagpur and out of city approached various laboratories in Nagpur to get themselves examined. The samples came for examination at various laboratories in Nagpur include Virology Laboratory of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) (1178) Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) (883) molecular diagnostic laboratory of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) (196) National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) (185) Centre for Zoonosis Nagpur Veterinary College affiliated to Maharashtra Animal Fisheries Sciences University (MAFSU) (171) Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) (331) private laboratories (2350) Antigen (1644). 3 more air passengers test positive for COVID-19 Three more air passengers tested positive for COVID-19 since the imposition of restrictions by the State Government. None of the 1270 train passengers screened at Railway Station were asked to undergo rapid antigen test as they showed no symptoms. After 12 air passengers testing positive for COVID-19 a day earlier three more tested positive on Friday. As per the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) all these patients had boarded the flight from Delhi. On Friday one flight from Jaipur and four from Delhi arrived at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport here. All 61 passengers on-board the flight from Jaipur had got themselves tested before boarding the flight and were carrying their negative reports. Of 461 passengers on-board four different flights coming from Delhi 81 were tested for COVID-19 and three of them were found positive. Given the facts it is surprising that the airport authorities at Delhi are allowing people to board the out-bound flights without checking their COVID-19 test reports or ascertaining that they are carrying the test reports. Meanwhile as many as 1270 passengers arrived at Railway Station in the city by eight different trains on Friday. These included five from Delhi and three from Gujarat. All these passengers were screened. However none of them was asked to undergo the rapid antigen test. The train-wise number of passengers screened on Friday at the Railway Station is as follows: New Delhi-Hyderabad -- 162 Porbandar-Howrah -- 151 Nizamuddin-Bengaluru -- 89 Ahmedabad-Puri Express -- 167 New Delhi-Vishakhapatnam -- 308 New Delhi-Chennai -- 135 New Delhi-Chennai -- 167 and Ahmedabad-Howrah Express -- 91.

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