Maharashtra Crosses 25,000 Coronavirus Cases With Highest Single Day Spike

Mumbai:

Maharashtra reported 1,495 coronavirus instances on Wednesday – the best single-day spike within the state taking its complete to 25,992, whereas the variety of deaths rose to 975 with 54 folks dying of COVID-19 within the final 24 hours, well being division officers stated. State capital Mumbai breached the 15,000-mark at present with 800 new instances taking its tally to 15,747. Mumbai is the worst-hit metropolis in India; it additionally accounts for 40 of the 54 deaths within the state within the final 24 hours.

Mumbai additionally accounts for 21 per cent of the entire COVID-19 instances within the nation. With a demise charge of three.71, 60 per cent of the entire fatalities within the state are additionally from the metropolis.

For six days in a row, Maharashtra reported over 1,000 instances each day.  A complete of 422 sufferers have been discharged from hospitals, taking the variety of recovered sufferers to five,547, an official stated.

Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum cluster, now has over a thousand instances. Pune, one other COVID-19 hotspot, has over 2,800 instances.

The centre has declared Mumbai as one of many hotspots of COVID-19 within the nation and numerous measures have been taken by the authorities to include the unfold of the virus in its densely populated slums.

Mumbai has ramped up testing with over 2,30,000 samples examined to this point. Almost three lakh individuals are in dwelling quarantine whereas over 14,000 individuals are in institutional quarantine.

A nationwide lockdown has been applied since March 25 to cease the unfold of the extremely contagious virus which has been prolonged twice. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday introduced ‘Lockdown 4’ which shall be applied with inputs and strategies from states.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, in a web-based tackle final Friday, stated any additional extension to the lockdown will depend upon how folks behave and their strict adherence to lockdown guidelines.

“We have to come out of the lockdown one day or the other. We can’t be living permanently like this. But to come out of this sooner, you need to follow rules and maintain discipline of social distancing and use face mask,” Mr Thackeray had stated.