Maharashtra confirmed cases at 320, 16 more test positive in Mumbai

We have entered into a new month and new financial year but the fight against coronavirus remains to be the same. All states including Maharashtra are working on war-footing to make sure that they can contain the spread of this deadly virus.

As per the latest update from the State Health Department, as of April 1, 2020, with the addition of 18 new cases, the total tally in Maharashtra has zoomed to 320. Out of these, 16 new cases are from Mumbai and 2 are from Pune.

In addition to this, the death toll in Maharashtra also rose to 12 with 2 people dying because of this disease. One of the person that lost his life was a 75-year old man from Mumbai. The officials are checking if the person or someone in his family had a travel history. The other person was a 50-year old from Palghar district.

The number of cases has seen an exponential increase and the officials are testing the people at many labs across the state. Further, CM Uddhav Thackeray has also asked the migrants not to leave their homes and necessary arrangements have been made by the ministry to ensure a controlled condition to curb the spread of Coronavirus.

It has been a week since PM Narendra Modi announced the lockdown which will be observed until April 15, 2020. Further, the state government has ensured that essentials are available across multiple cities. A few days back, the respective department had also asked the e-platforms to begin delivery services of the groceries so people do not leave the houses and stay safe at home.

The civic authority, BMC, has stated that this sudden rise in coronavirus cases is because of the tests conducted by private labs, and the results of which were cumulative of four days. Commenting on the same BMC said, "To improve testing facilities, certain private labs have been approved and 18 patients were diagnosed between date March 24 and March 28 across various private labs. All these patients are being followed up on by the BMC health department. As these 18 cases are included in the list today there appears to be a rise in cases, but it is mainly due to vigorous contact tracing by the health teams and enhanced testing in public and private labs. We are ensuring proper preventive steps to control the spread of disease."

So far thirty-nine coronavirus positive patients have been discharged after recovery.