PUNE: Covid casualties are approaching zero level ‘permanently’ as the number of newly diagnosed patients needing hospitalisation owing to severe illness is shrinking significantly in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR).
In the last 24 hours, the PMR recorded zero Covid deaths consecutively for the second day, with positive cases dropping to the single-day lowest of 63 cases. The PMR had recorded 163 cases on Sunday.
“We have almost no Covid admission for more than a week now. If the trend sustains, we will permanently have zero Covid casualties,” said Dr Vilas Gundecha, chief of the intensive care unit at Inlaks and Budharani hospital in Koregaon Park.
Currently, state-run Sassoon General Hospital also has no admitted Covid patients who are severely ill. “The number of Covid admission has gone down by over 95%. We also have days when there is no Covid patient admitted at all,” said hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Ajay Taware.
Out of 1,187 active cases, as many as 148 positive patients were in hospital isolation. There were also 115 recoveries on Monday.
