Pune: 24 persons found Coronavirus Positive at Balewadi quarantine centre

Pune, April 24, 2020: Aundh Ward office Assistant Commissioner Jaideep Pawar informed today that 24 out of 300 people who were put up in an ‘Institutional Quarantine’ at Nikaal College near the highway in Balewadi have tested positive for Coronavirus COVID19.

All of them have been quarantined from other parts of the city and none of them is local patients, he said. After receiving the reports of the citizens who were institutionally quarantined, 24 of them tested positive for coronavirus and they were shifted to Symbiosis hospital and some other hospitals, said Assistant Commissioner Pawar.

Till 7 pm on 23 April ie yesterday, the number of total patients in the district increased to 985. The same number on April 22 at 7 pm was 881. Officials said that out of 985, a total of 150 patients have been cured and discharged, while 61 have died in the district.

Till yesterday night, the count of COVID19 patients in the state of Maharashtra was 6427 after 778 new patients were identified as positive for Covid19. From these, 840 Covid19 patients have been cured and discharged from the respective hospitals, while 283 have died.