Maharashtra continued to be in the grip of coronavirus on Saturday, as 11 more persons succumbed to the pandemic taking the total number of deaths to 211 and 328 others tested positive for Covid.
On a day when the total infected cases in the State cases rose from 3,320 to 3,648, the pandemic claimed eleven lives. Of the total deaths, Mumbai accounted for five deaths, while there were four deaths in Pune. Aurangabad and Thane reported one death each.
Of those dead, there were six men and five women. While five of them were aged over 60 years, the remaining six were in the age group of 40 to 60 years. “Out of the 11 deceased, 82 per cent had had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and heart disease,” a state health medical bulletin said.
“The death toll among Covid-19 patients has now gone up to 211. A death reported on April 11 by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now been to be Covid negative as now informed by the BMC. Therefore, this has been eliminated from the total death count,” the bulletin said.
With fresh infected cases, the total number of infected cases in Mumbai rose to 2268, while the state health authorities pegged the total number of deaths at 126. Similarly, the total number of infected cases in Pune Municipal Corporation climbed to 528, while the number of deaths went up 49.
Meanwhile, the state health bulletin said: “Out of 67,468 laboratory samples tested so far, 63,476 have been found to be negative, while 3648 samples have tested positive for coronavirus until today”.
The State health authorities said that they were implementing the cluster containment action plan in places where clusters of patients have been found in the state.
“There are 344 active containment zones in the state currently. Total 5994 surveillance squads worked today across the state and surveillance of over 23 lakh population was done,” the bulletin said.
“As many as 365 patients have been discharged till date after full recovery. 2. Currently, 82,299 people are in home quarantine and 6999 people are in institutional quarantine,” the bulletin added.
Meanwhile, the BMC said as many as 302 patients have tested positive in Thyrocare, Metro Labs and suburban labs between April 12 and 15. “These cases have been added progressive report as per the last report received today.
The patients have already been admitted in isolation wards and are under observation. Necessary precautions like contact tracing are being taken,” the BMC bulletin said