Maharashtra: COVID-19 cases jump by 8,308 in 24 hrs; active cases soar to 1.2 lakh

Maharashtra on Friday clocked a whopping 8,308 new cases of Coronavirus disease, taking overall tally of confirmed cases to 2,92,589, informed state health department.

death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 11,452 after 258 patients succumbed to illness in last 24 hours. number of recovered patients jumped by 2,217 in same period to reach 1,60,357. As of July 1, re are 1,20,480 active cases in Maharashtra.

In state capital Mumbai, 1,214 people were diagsed with COVID-19 on Friday, taking aggregate to 99,164. As per state health bulletin, India's financial capital has 23,948 active cases while 5,585 patients have died. For some time w, Mumbai has reported less than 2,000 cases a day while number of tests has remained fairly progressive, a sign that outbreak is easing. Overall, Mumbai's doubling rate at 52 days is higher than national aver of 21.8 days.

Meanwhile, total number of cases in neighbouring Thane district touched 71,345, of which it has 36,468 active cases, highest in India for an urban district. Cases in Pune have also been going up rapidly and currently has 29,583 active cases. tally of active cases in Palghar meanwhile stands at 5,162 while it is 967 in Nagpur.

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state health department said recovery rate in Maharashtra is 54.81% while case fatality rate is 3.91%. Currently, 7,24,602 people are under home quarantine and 44,284 people in institutional quarantine. Furrmore, out of 14,84,630 laboratory samples, 2,92,58 have been tested positive (19.7%) for COVID-19 until July 17.

Expressing concern over rising number of COVID-19 cases, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said government was planning to set up sample testing laboratories in all districts.

As per reports, state FDA authorities have asked remdesivir manufacturers to increase supply of medicine amid surging coronavirus cases. It has also asked se companies to distribute 60% of ir total supply for Maharashtra to Mumbai and Thane, given high caseloads in sister cities.

Meanwhile, state Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope anunced that Maharashtra government will form a committee to fix prices of face masks and hand sanitizers so that exorbitant rates are charged.

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