Taking serious cognisance of the increased number of Covid-19 positive cases during the week ending on June 3, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday asked the Maharashtra government to maintain strict vigil and take pre-emptive action to control the spread of infection.
On a day when the new Covid-19 cases crossed the 1,000 mark in the state for the third consecutive day, Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Rajesh Bhushan advised the state government to continue to adopt a five-fold strategy for prompt and effective management of Covid-19.
The five-fold strategy involved aspects like Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour, Monitoring Clusters of new Covid-19 cases, adequate testing as per guidelines, monitoring Influenza-like cases in all health facilities and genomic sequencing for prescribed samples of international passengers, collection of sample from sentinel sites ( identified health facilities), and local clusters of cases.
Among other things, the Centre has taken serious note of the upsurge in cases the past one week ending on June 3.
“Maharashtra has reported an increase in weekly new cases from 2,471 new cases in the week ending May 27 to 4,883 cases in the week ending June 3, accounting to 23.19 per cent of India’s new cases in week ending on June 3. The state has also seen an increase in the positivity in the last week from 1.5 per cent to 3.1 per cent,” Bhushan said in his letter addressed to Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Dr Pradeep Vyas.
“While analysing district-wide Covid-19 situation, it is observed that six districts – Mumbai suburban, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Raigad and Palghar have recorded increase in weekly cases and positivity which required focussed attention from the State administration,” Bhushan stated in his letter.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Friday recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-19 cases for the second consecutive day since February this year.
After it recorded 1081 cases and 1045 fresh cases on Wednesday and Thursday, the state logged 1,134 fresh Covid-19 cases on Friday, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases from 78,89,212 to 78,90,346
With three fresh Covid-19 triggered deaths reported during the day, total number of deaths registered in the state since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the state in March 2020 rose from 1,47,861 to 1,47,864.