Pune tops in active cases, city second
IN TERMS OF FATALITY, OF THE TOTAL 114,154 DEATHS, PUNE LEADS WITH 15,593, FOLLOWED BY MUMBAI WITH 15,216
MUMBAI: The state on Tuesday recorded 9,350 new Covid-19 cases with 388 deaths. However, Pune continued to clock the highest number of active cases, as well as the fatality rate in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra has a total number of 1,38,361 active Covid-19 cases, of which, Pune is leading with 17,623 cases, followed by Mumbai with 17,519.
Similarly, in terms of fatality, of the total 1,14,154 deaths, Pune leads with 15,593, followed by Mumbai with 15,216.
Till now, Mumbai was leading in the number of deaths, however, this changed on June 13 when Pune recorded 15,187 deaths, while Mumbai recorded 15,183. From the last two days, Pune continued to outdo Mumbai in the number of deaths.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 cases last year, Pune has recorded 17% of the total cases in Maharashtra with a caseload of 10,37,780, of the total 59,24,773 in the state.
Dr Subhash Salunkhe, who is the advisor for the government of Maharashtra on Covid-19 management, and a resident of Pune, said, “Even before Mumbai, Pune had travellers coming from the Middle East and China, who were infected with Covid-19 virus. They infected the locals and it subsequently spread to the semi-urban and rural pockets.”
Salunke attributed the high mortality rates to those citizens coming from the peripheral areas.
“Many of the citizens living in peripheral areas which lacked proper hospitals thronged to Pune for treatment in the second wave. However
Beneficiaries in the 18-45 age group wait to get inoculated at a Vile Parle centre, on Tuesday.
since many were late in admitting themselves, they succumbed to the virus resulting in high death rates,” said Salunkhe.
Dr HK Sale, executive director, Noble Hospitalin Pune said the second wave was aggravated due to twin factors of the overwhelming number of patients and lack of Covid-19 appropriate behaviour of the citizens.
“The second wave mutant of the virus was lethal resulting in large number of people getting infected, No one was prepared to handle such a huge load and the whole medical infrastructure was overburdened. Other factor was that the citizens became negligent and let their guard down,” said Dr Sale.
There were 202,638 tests done on Tuesday while the number of recoveries was 15,176.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Mumbai clocked 572 new Covid-19 cases and 14 deaths. The total number of cases in Mumbai reached 716,351 with 15,216 deaths. Mumbai has been getting less than 1,000 new Covid-19 cases from May 31 onwards.