On a day there was a small drop in the number of deaths but infections continued to be alarming, as many as nine persons succumbed to Covid-19 taking the total number of deaths in Maharashtra to 187 and the number of infected cases rose by 232-- from 2684 to 2916 --in the State.
Of the total deaths, Pune accounted for six deaths, while Mumbai and Akola reported two deaths and one death respectively.
With the fresh cases, the total number of deaths in the State rose to 187 and in Mumbai to 114.
Of the nine deaths reported on Wednesday, six were men and three women. Four of the deceased were aged over 60 years, while three deceased were in the age group 40 to 60 years. The two remaining deceased were below 40 years. Six out of these nine deceased (72%) had high-risk comorbidities such as diabetes, blood pressure, asthma, heart disease. Of total 232 infected cases reported, Mumbai accounted for 114, taking the total number of cases in the metropolis to 1896.
“Out of 52,000 laboratory samples, 48198 were negative and 2684 have been tested positive for coronavirus until today,” a state medical bulletin said.
“A total 5394 surveillance squads were working today across the state and surveillance of nearly 20 lakh population was done,” the bulletin said Meanwhile, the Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has held 100 fever clinics from April 5 to 14 in which Of the 3929 people have screened,1541 swabs collected from suspected cases.
Similarly, on the contact tracing front, 857 cases have been detected as a result of contact tracing.
Meanwhile, as many as 33,636 Premises (Govt/semi govt premises, MCGM premises, Home quarantine premises, Covid positive patient premises, other premises) have been sanitized as per GOI guidelines till April 14.
“All citizens who are having diabetes, hypertension , heart diseases like chronic illnesses should be advised to stay strictly at home .Those on treatment for diabetes and hypertension should continue their medications so that the illness will remain under control,” the BMC stated in its advisory. “Elderly as well as citizens with co-morbidities , if develop even slightest symptoms like fever, dry cough, sore throat, mild breathlessness should immediately report to nearest MCGM corona health centre for treatment,” the advisory added.