Distt records highest COVID-19 deaths as 73 succumb to virus ? Principal Correspondent : WITH 73 persons succumbing to COVID-19 Nagpur district has recorded highest number of deaths due to the dreaded virus onThursday.This number is seasons highest count. Of the 73 deaths 5 were the residents of places outside Nagpur district. Nagpur rural reported 28 deaths while 40 persons became victims of the virus in city. This has taken the cumulative death count to 5577 of which 893 persons were not the residents of Nagpur district. New cases of coronavirus also have become a cause of worry as over 5000 people are daily testing positive for COVID-19. Today 5514 persons tested positive in the district. The gap between cases in Nagpur rural and city has drastically reduced. Today Nagpur rural registered 2628 new cases while in city 2881 persons tested positive for coronavirus. With these the cumulative positive cases reached 259735. Today 3277 persons became corona-free in Nagpur district taking the cumulative recovery to 209061. The recovery is less as compared to new positive cases resulting rise in active cases to 45097.Though marginal but recovery rate has come down to 80.49%. The number of testing reported onWednesday is quite high as the count stood at 19176. Nagpur rural has crossed 9000 mark as it registered 9581 testing. Almost equal number of testing reported by Nagpur city as it stood at 9595 taking the cumulative testing count to 1757774. Deceptive number of positive cases? EVERYDAY when people read about new cases of COVID-19 they get horrified. Even administration and healthcare workers are scared as cases continue to rise. But the number is deceptive. A senior pathologist who has been constantly examining the samples for RTPCR told The Hitavada “Out of scare people are getting themselves tested twice or even thrice so their test reports are counted in the total data. Suppose that days new cases count stand at 5000 then it is the total number of cases including those who have tested themselves multiple times. I appeal to people not to get their samples examined multiple times and at different laboratories.”

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