Aurangabad registers 122 +ve cases in a day

Aurangabad: As many as 80 men and 42 women tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, taking the tally of positive cases in the district to 3,238. Eight more people have succumbed to the viral infection between Thursday and Friday, taking the Covid-19 death toll to 178 in the district.

Kanan Yelikar, dean of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), said that as many as seven people died of Covid-19 in the hospital between 5pm on Thursday and 8.30am on Friday. In addition, a 58-year-old woman from Mukundwadi died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) said that with the help of thermal guns and pulse oximeters, they have screened 34,323 households in the city and 57,422 people above the age of 50. All the data has been fed into the ‘Majhi Health Majha Haathi’ mobile application. The civic administration has been appealing to people to cooperate with the health teams and furnish the correct information.

With the help of the mobile application, those aged 50 years and above are being screened so as to detect the infection at an early stage. The step has been taken to reduce the fatality rate in Aurangabad.

The AMC further informed that pharmaceutical company Cipla has offered to conduct 10,000 Covid-19 tests in Aurangabad city for free at Metropolis lab.


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