COVID-19 crisis: 440 new cases & 19 deaths reported in Maharashtra amid 342 casualties

Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally increased to 8068 after 440 fresh vel coronavirus cases were detected on Sunday, April 26. With 358 new patients, Mumbai constitutes a large chunk of surge in state's COVID-19 cases. 112 persons were discharged in day, taking total number of recovered individuals to 1188. 19 casualties- 12 from Mumbai, 3 from Pune, 2 from Jalgaon, and one from Solapur and Latur owing to COVID-19 were reported on Sunday. At least 11 of deceased individuals h high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease. Presently, Maharashtra's death toll stands at 342. 

A total of 1,16,345 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in state so far. Moreover, state government has demarcated 604 containment zones. Currently, 1,36,926 persons are in home quarantine while 9,160 ors have been mitted to an institutional quarantine facility. 

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Maharashtra CM dresses people

dressing people of state earlier in day, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray thanked people belonging to all faiths for celebrating ir festivals at home. He stressed that God is in everyone who is involving in fight against COVID-19 pandemic- including police, doctors, and cleanliness workers. Thackeray asserted that state government was t hiding any data from Inter-Ministerial Central Team.

At same time, he issued an appeal to desist from politicising response to vel coronavirus crisis. Promising migrant workers that he was talking to Centre regarding ir desire to go home, Maharashtra CM me it clear that trains won't run for this purpose. ditionally, he paid hom to family of two policemen who lost ir lives due to COVID-19. 

Meanwhile, NCP supremo Shar Pawar wrote to PM Modi and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pitching a strategy to overcome COVID-19 crisis faced by Maharashtra. He requested Centre to extend a two-year moratorium on repayment of National Small Savings Fund Loan by state governments. NCP chief also called upon Union government to anunce a suitable financial pack to Maharashtra. 

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