'1000 COVID-19 deaths in Mumbai not added to state's fatality toll': Fadnavis to Maha CM

BJP leer Devendra Fnavis on Thursday wrote to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray alleging that 1000 COVID-19 deaths in Mumbai h still t been reported in state's overall fatality toll. He mentioned that state government h earlier shown 1328 ditional deaths as part of a data reconciliation exercise after his letter dated June 15. According to him, data pertaining to COVID-19 patients who h died outside hospitals h t come on record yet. 

He stressed that it was essential that  deaths are ded to state's fatality toll on same day or in 72 hours at most. Fnavis contended it was a very wrong strategy to grually d deaths that occurred over a period of three months. BJP leer stated that COVID-19 data was necessary to understand extent of vel coronavirus spre. He called upon Thackeray to ensure that re is delay in reporting of COVID-19 deaths resulting in correct data being disseminated. 

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4841 new cases in Maharashtra

Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally soared to 1,47,740 after 4,841 persons tested positive for vel coronavirus on Thursday, June 25. re are 63,342 active cases in state. With 3661 patients being discharged in day, total number of recovered rose to 77,453. 192 deaths were reported on Thursday, propelling state's fatality toll to 6,931. 

As per state Public Health Department, patient doubling rate has steily increased in last three months. Currently, state's COVID-19 recovery rate and fatality rate stands at 52.42% and 4.69% respectively. So far, a total of 8,48,026 samples have been tested for vel coronavirus. While 5,56,428 persons are in home quarantine, 33,952 ors have been mitted to institutional quarantine centres. 

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Central team to visit Maharashtra

Amid criticism about handling of COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Telangana, a Central team led by Lav Aggarwal- Joint Secretary in Ministry of Health will visit se states from June 26-29. team shall interact with state officials and coordinate with m to strengn ongoing efforts for manment of COVID-19. While Maharashtra and Gujarat have seen a rising number of vel coronavirus cases, Telangana's COVID-19 fight has drawn flak for lack of eugh testing.