COVID-19 cases hit century in single day, 116 more test +ve
   Date :10-Jul-2020
 
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 Police officials on bandobast outside Central Jail. (Pic: Satish Raut)
 
Principal Correspondent :
 
Nagpur witnessed highest spike of coronavirus positive cases till date when 116 testing positive on Thursday. Out of 116, 100 cases are of Central Prison alone, taking the cumulative number in prison to 209. These cases came positive through Rapid Antigen Test conducted in virology laboratory of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) after examining 145 samples of Central Prison.
 
The antigen test was conducted as per the new guidelines issued by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). With these the total number of coronavirus positive cases reached 1,960. Out of total 116 cases, 109 came positive in IGGMCH while 7 tested positive among the samples examined at the molecular diagnostic laboratory of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
 
Nagpur also witnessed two coronavirus deaths-- one person is from Kondhali while other is from Amravati. A 78-year-old resident of Ward 6, Kondhali was referred to Government Medical College and Hospital from a private hospital. The patient had Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and tested positive for coronavirus. He had fever and also suffering from respiratory ailments with increased frequency of urine. On July 7, he was transferred to ICU and died on Thursday afternoon. His cause of death was urosepsis with bilateral bronchopneumonia. Another patient died was the resident of Rampur Camp, Amravati. He was admitted in GMCH on July 2 in Covid ward. Suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday morning with ischemic stroke, Acute Respiratory Disease Syndrome (ARDS) with septicaemia with septic shock with respiratory failure. The total recovery on Thursday is 24. Out of 24 recovered cases, 14 patients are from IGGMCH and 10 are from AIIMS. With these the total number of discharged reached 1,077. The recovery of IGGMCH reached 562, Government Medical College and Hospital 377 while AIIMS figure stands at 111. 
 
About Rapid Antigen Test Explaining about the Rapid Antigen Test in simple manner Dr Yagnesh Thakar, noted Microbiologist said, “The examination of virus is done in five different ways. 1. Through microscope, but this virus is not visible through microscope so that option is not feasible. 2. Through culture examination which needs expertise and lakhs of samples can’t be examined. 3. The surface of virus has different antigen like human being wears clothes. So different virus has different clothes (antigen) which are examined through Rapid Antigen Test. 4. Detecting RNA in virus through antibody test and 5. Molecular RT PCR testing which is most perfect.”
 
When antigen test comes positive it means the virus has already entered in human body. Once virus enters, our body starts developing antibodies to fight against antigen. The first antibody gets developed, the strongest one is IgM. But body takes some time to develop IgM, say 4 to 5 days after the entry of virus. IgM finishes virus by tearing antigen of it. The body immunity gets decided through the existence of antibodies. IgG remains in the body for long till it finishes virus. The present plasma therapy revolves around IgG antibodies that remain in the body for longer time. While using plasma of the recovered corona positive patient, the IgG antibody plays an important role helping the corona positive patient to get recovered.
 
Coronavirus cases cross 1,900 mark With 119 persons testing positive for coronavirus in single day (on July 9), the cumulative number crossed 1,900 mark. Last 100 cases came in two days. On Tuesday (July 7) Nagpur reached 1,847. City crossed first 100 of the positive cases after 44 days of the first coronavirus. After 10 days positive cases in Nagpur completed 200 cases. After seven days, city crossed 300 mark and within next 10 days, the corona positive cases in Nagpur crossed 400. It took 7 days for city to cross 500 cases while after the passage of five days the corona positive cases touched 600 mark. The city crossed cumulative number 700 after the passage of four days of touching 600th corona positive case. Another 100 came within five days taking the total to 800. It took only one day for the coronavirus positive cases to jump 900 from 800. Coronavirus positive cases touched 1,000 within four days after it crossed 900. The cumulative number reached 1,100 mark three days back--on June 17. On June 20 the number of corona positive cases crossed 1,200 mark, immediately after three days, it reached 1,300 mark. After five days (June 28) the total crossed 1,400 mark. After three days the total reached 1,500 (July 1) and within two days the cases crossed 1,600. When the total jumped from 1,400 to 1,500 it took three days. It took only two days for corona positive cases to reach 1,700 mark. bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb