Pune district reported more than 192 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest surge till now over a 12-hour span, taking the district’s case tally to 17,043, said authorities. On Tuesday, Pune district had reported its second-highest case surge, recording a whopping 820 new cases. Cases outside containment zonesMore than 40% of the cases within Pune city are now emerging outside the nearly 75 ‘containment zones’. As per figures given by the Pune Zilla Parishad’s Health Department till Tuesday night, there were 5,946 (excluding Wednesday’s surge) active cases in various hospitals across the district. Of these, 4,652 people are undergoing treatment in hospitals in Pune city, 930 in Pimpri-Chinchwad, and 364 in Pune’s rural areas.

Source: The Hindu June 24, 2020 07:19 UTC