In yet another biggest spike in the number of deaths and infections in a day, as many as 22 persons on Sunday succumbed to Covid-19 in Maharashtra taking the total number of deaths to 149 and 221 others tested positive for the pandemic in the State.
On a day when the total number of infected cases in the State rose from 1761 to 1982, Mumbai recorded 16 deaths, while there were three deaths in Pune, two in Navi Mumbai and one in Solapur.
Mumbai, which is the most coronavirus-affected city in the country, has so far recorded 92 deaths and 1298 infected cases.
Of the 22 persons died to Covid on Sunday, 13 were men and 9 women. Six of those dead were aged over 60 years, while 15 deceased were from the age group 40 to 60 years and one was below 40 years “Twenty out of these 22 patients (91%) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and heart disease,” a medical bulletin released by the State Health Department said.
Out of 41,109 laboratory samples, 37,964 were negative and 1982 have been tested positive for coronavirus until today. As many as 217 patients have been discharged till date after full recovery,” the bulletin said.
“As many as 1,247 people are in home quarantine, while 5064 people are in institutional quarantine,” the bulletin said.
Meanwhile, the state health authorities said that they were carrying out a thorough search of citizens who had attended the religious gathering at Banglewali Masjid at Nizamuddin last month was underway at the level of all districts and municipal corporations.
Of the Tablighi Jamaat event attendees, 755 have been tested and 37 have been found to be positive for Covid-19.
Out of these 37, 8 are in Latur, 7 in Yavatmal, 6 in Buldhana, 3 in Mumbai, and 2 each in Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Ahmednagar, and one each in Ratnagiri, Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Hingoli, Jalgaon, Osmanabad, Kolhapur and Washim. Additionally, 6 contacts of these cases have been found positive in Ahmednagar and 1 in Pimpri-Chinchwad.
The health authorities said that as per the guidance from Government of India, cluster containment action plan was being implemented in places where clusters of patients have been found in the state.
“There are total 4846 surveillance squads deployed across the state and surveillance of 17.46lakh population has been done. Twenty six persons the same family and their contacts had been found positive at Ismalpur in Sangli district. Twenty four of them have been discharged upon recovery until now.
Thirty one surveillance squads regularly searched through the population of over 7,500 in the affected area in Islampur during the last two weeks,” the bulletin added.