The coronavirus situation continued to be grim in Maharashtra on Friday, as 13 more persons died taking the total Covid-19 deaths to 110 and 210 more persons tested positive for the pandemic.
Maharashtra, which is the worst coronavirus-affected State in terms of deaths and infected cases, recorded 13 deaths — of which 10 were reported from Mumbai. Pune, Panvel and Virar-Vasai recorded one death each.
Of those whose deaths were reported on Friday, six deceased were above the age of 60 years, while five deceased were aged between 40 and 50 years. The remaining two were aged below 40 years.
Eighty five persons of the 11 deceased were suffering from diabetes, blood pressure, asthma and heart disease.
The State health authorities have strong reason to be worried, as 210 more infected cases were reported on Friday, taking the total number of positive cases in the State to a staggering 1,574. Such has been the spread that as many as 696 infected cases have been reported in the last four days.
Of the total fresh infected cases, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 132 cases. With the latest cases, the total number of positive cases mounted to 1,008.
Meanwhile, the medical bulletin put out by the State Health Department said: "Out of 33,093 laboratory samples, 30,477 were negative and 1,574 have been tested positive for coronavirus until today. As many as 188 patients have been discharged till date after full recovery".
"As many as 38,927 people are in home quarantine and 4,738 people are in institutional quarantine," the bulletin said.
In a related development, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its daily medical bulletin: "We have sanitised 28,243 premises (Government, semi-Government, MNPL premises, home quarantine places) as per the Government guidelines till April 10".
"Contact tracing of 775 persons has led to the identification of 4,028 high-risk individuals till April 9 and identification of 382 positive among them. Many of the detected contact positive cases are asymptomatic and isolated," the bulletin said.
"We conducted 50 clinics from April 5 to 9, in which 1,906 people have been screened and 647 swabs collected," the bulletin said.
"As many as 16,000 Covid-19 tests have been done in private sector laboratories," the bulletin added.
