Aurangabad, Feb 12:
The count of active coronavirus cases in Aurangabad district has more than doubled to 279 within 12 days. The number of active cases across different centres in the district was 102 on February 1. This count increased to 279 by Friday night. The number of new infection cases reported on February 1 in the district was 26, while it was 71 on February 12. With this, the district's tally reached 47,529 by Friday night presently the fatality count mounted to 1,243. Till now, 46,007 patients have recovered from the infection.
According to Aurangabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) health officer Dr Neeta Padalkar, " The growth in Coronavirus infection could be due to sudden change in the city's weather since the past one week. This climate helps in the spread of the virus. The increase in public movement is also a possible reason. Meanwhile, the AMC will be intensifying its drive to detect citizens moving without face masks in the city from tomorrow."
District health officer, Dr Sudhakar Shelke, said, even we are very surprised with this situation. The situation was completely under controls and a sudden increase in the number of patients was seen in the past few days. We have called a meeting of the tehsil health officers on Saturday and we will analyse the areas where the number of patients increased, reasons of infection, etc. Still, there is a severe need that the people should follow the guidelines of observing social distancing, washing hands and using masks, he said.
In all, 71 new Corona patients were found positive on Friday.
The total number of patients in the district reached 47529 now, of which 46007 recovered, 1243 died while 279 are being treated, informed the district administration.
Patients found in the city are from, Vedantnagar, Hudco, N-11 Hudco, Begumpura, Hanuman Tekdi, Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital Girls Hostel, Satara area, PWD Colony, Kranti Chowk, Jatwada Road, New Hanumannagar Garkheda, Chikalthana, TV Centre, N-2 Cidco, Osmanpura, Vitkheda (One each).
Deogiri Engineeering College, Osmanpura, N-3 Cidco, PES College, Karmad, Mhada Colony (Two each). Beed By-pass, Jaibhavaninagar (Three each). N-4 Cidco – 7, Others – 22. Patients found in the rural areas are from, Lasur Station, Gangapur – 1, Others – 5. Meanwhile, 52 patient including 42 from the city and 10 from the rural areas recovered and were given discharge on Friday. The total number of patients recovered in the district reached 46007 now while 279 are being treated.