In what could be said to be a silver lining amid the coronavirus pandemic in Chhattisgarh, more than 24,000 Covid-19 positive patients have been discharged from hospitals after beating the deadly infection, the government said on Thursday.
“In the past one month, 5,718 patients were discharged from Covid hospitals and isolation centres,” an official press note said.
On November 9, 1,146 patients were discharged in a day, the highest one-day recovery in the state.
Of the total 24,414 recovered patients in the state, 7,316 were from Raipur district.
In the last one week, 1,715 patients from Raipur district, 429 from Durg, 422 from Raigarh, 333 from Rajnandgaon, 195 from Bilaspur, 183 from Korba and 156 from Janjgir-Champa have returned home.
In the same duration, 225 home isolated patients in various districts also completed isolation period.
The state government is constantly expanding the screening and treatment facilities to control Covid-19. The number of sample investigations is continuously increasing in all districts to identify corona infections, the press release said.