Mumbai recorded 1,374 fresh coronavirus cases on Wednesday. This is slightly disappointing for Mumabaikars, as just a day ago, the city recorded less than 1,000 COVID-19 and many were taking this as a sign of improvement. There have been 62 new fatalities in the city taking the total death toll to 5,467. Mumbai has now an updated tally of 96,474 cases as of Wednesday.
Even though the densely populated slums of Dharavi have shown massive improvements in the past few days, the western suburban areas of Malad, Kandivali, Borivali and Dahisar have seen a large rise in cases. Mumbai's neighbouring Thane district has also seen a drastic increase in cases since easing the lockdown rules in June. The total cases have now reached 67,360 in the district and hence, the lockdown in the areas of Thane has been extended till July 19.
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope, tweeted on Wednesday that, the state reported 7,975 new coronavirus cases taking the state's tally to 2,75,640. The number of active cases in the state has reached 1,11,801 and total patients recovered so far are 1,52,613. With a death tally at 10,928, the state continues to remain the worst-hit in the country.
The current count of COVID19 patients in the state of Maharashtra is 275640. Today,newly7975 patients have been identified as positive.Also newly3606 patients have been cured today,totally 152613 patients are cured & discharged from the hospitals Total Active patients are 111801
— Rajesh Tope (@rajeshtope11) July 15, 2020
Rajesh Tope also said in media reports that demand would be made to the union government to put sanitizers and masks under the Essential Commodities Act, in order to make it in affordable rates for citizens across the state.
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