Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally surges to 2,916; overall death toll stands at 187

spre of vel Coronavirus in Maharashtra continues to be a matter of major concern as 232 more cases were reported on Wednesday, taking overall state tally to a whopping 2916. Moreover, death toll in state has surged to 187 with 9 more casualties- 6 from Pune, two from Mumbai and one from Akola being reported in day. On a positive te, 36 individuals were discharged from hospital today after recovering from COVID-19. So far, 295 persons have been cured. 

With 1896 cases and 114 deaths, Mumbai continues to be a major COVID-19 hotspot in Maharashtra. Moreover, a total of 52,000 laboratory samples have been tested. 69,738 people are under home quarantine and 5,617 individuals are in institutional quarantine. 

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Uddhav Thackeray talks about fight against COVID-19

dressing people of Maharashtra on Wednesday, CM Uddhav Thackeray thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for extending lockdown till May 3. He attributed rising COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra to high number of tests being conducted in Mumbai. Maharashtra CM confirmed that two committees- one heed by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and or consisting of experts such as Raghunath Mashelkar, Ajit Rane h been formed to chalk out a plan to mitigate ecomic crisis.

Highlighting that re were vel Coronavirus cases in 10 districts of state, he exuded confidence that COVID-19 pandemic would be defeated. ditionally, Thackeray revealed that state government h asked Centre to permit trial for Plasma rapy and BCG vaccine treatment. 

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