nagpur a sudden spike of 51 cases in nagpur after a long time and reporting of 84 confirmed positive cases was the only highlight of the covid19 scenario in vidarbha on friday akola recorded 14 cases followed by amravati 12 buldhana 5 bhandara 1 and chandrapur 1 five districts yavatmal wardha gondia gadchiroli and washim reported no new case on friday for the first time since may 21 no death was reported in vidarbha between may 21 and june 4 30 deaths were reported from the region on the recovery front 33 patients were discharged from hospitals the highest being 17 from akola five patients were discharged from nagpur six from gadchiroli and three from buldhana the recovery rate of vidarbha continued to remain above 60 akola reported 14 new cases after a high spike of 45 on thursday these 14 cases are from 10 different localities cases in akola surpassed the 700mark and reached 726 on the other hand 17 patients were discharged from akola gmch ten of them preferred to live in covid care centres as they dont have home isolation facilities with 12 confirmed positive cases in a day amravatis covid19 count reached 270 on friday with 16 deaths and 166 recovered persons the active cases are 88 nowa rukmini nagarbased private hospital seems to have become a covid hotspot as five of the 12 cases are linked to it with three earlier cases this hospital now has eight cases but it has not yet been sealedwe have not sealed the hospital as it has patients we have prevented the hospital from admitting new cases said amc commissioner prashant rode while talking to toiit is unfortunate that so many persons from the hospital have contracted the virus we have asked the hospital management not to admit new patients and treat the existing ones by following the covid protocol we will take swabs of all the staffers after five days of their quarantine he added according to an official the hospitals covid positives include a 35yearold female security guard who hails from frezerpura a 23yearold female relative of a nurse who resides in rukmini nagar in a rented room and tested positive two days ago a 21yearold female patient and her 52yearold father and 44yearold motherthe virus caught two 22yearold youths in its grip in sarafa bazar on thursday evening and aurangpura on friday morning it spread its tentacles in new localities of mangaldham colony and ansaarnagar where a 31yearold male and a 65yearold woman tested positive while the mangaldham colony youth is a credit officer in a finance company who came in contact with its cash officer who tested positive two days ago the ansaarnagar woman has been in the district general hospital for the last ten days said an officialbudhwara a new hotspot on friday took its count to ten with three cases all females aged 22 26 and 45 from a single family two of them are siblings they are all contacts