Maharashtra Coronavirus Live Updates: Mumbai’s virus mitigation efforts drew global attention, says Thackeray

Maharashtra, Mumbai, Pune Coronavirus News Live Updates: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray Monday highlighted how the World Health Organisation has taken note of coronavirus situation and handling in the “densely-populated Mumbai” and so did the newspaper “ Washington Post” which has praised their efforts for the same.

“We have contained the spread of the novel coronavirus. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken note of  it, The Washington Post, too, has praised it. But our test is still not over. All machineries should be alert to bring the graph of cases down and not remain off-guard,”an official quoting Thackeray said.

Pune district reported its highest single day spike in covid cases as it added 2,601 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total casecount in the district to 54,013 on Monday, a health department official said, PTI reported. A lockdown has been imposed in Pune city, Pimpri-Chinchwad and parts of Pune rural from July 14 to July 23, in an effort to curb the spread of the infection.

Maharashtra’s COVID-19 tally rose to 3,18,695 on Monday with the addition of 8,240 new cases, while the death toll crossed the 12,000-mark, the state health department said. With 176 new deaths in a day, the state’s fatality count increased to 12,030, the department said. A total of 5,460 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the number of recovered persons to 1,75,029, the department said in a statement. There are 1,31,334 active cases in the state at present.

With 12 more people testing positive for novel coronavirus on Monday, the tally of cases in Dharavi slum sprawl here has reached 2,492, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Dharavi now has 147 active cases. The BMC said 2,095 of 2,492 patients have already been discharged from hospitals.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra state textile minister Aslam Shaikh on Monday said he has tested positive for coronavirus and is isolating himself. He informed that he is currently asymptomatic and has urged all his contacts to get themselves tested.