In a recently held press conference, Maharashtra Health Minister announced that the government has arranged three new testing labs in the city, which will be able to screen the coronavirus samples. These testing centres located at KEM Hospital, Kasturba Hospital and BJ Hospital, will be functional from Thursday, March 19, 2020.
Further, he also mentioned that the department is looking forward to making eight such testing centres in the next few days, which will be able to test 180-250 samples per centre. Besides this, the city of Pune will also have 10 isolation centres.
So far, eight positive cases have been tested at Naidu hospital and 19 at YCM. The state has seen a total of 42 cases and one death so far, out of which seven cases are from Mumbai. Besides this, there are 10 cases from Pimpri Chinchwad, eight from Pune, four from Nagpur, three from Yavatmal, three from Navi Mumbai, three from Kalyan, and one each from Raigad, Thane, Ahmednagar and Aurangabad.
Further, officials have also urged people to follow and respect social distancing and have asked companies to offer work from home for some more days. Government offices are also looking at functioning at 50 per cent capacity.
In order to curb the situation, CM Uddhav Thackeray-led government has given utmost priority to health and safety and keeping the same in mind, the city has been under a lockdown for a few days. Schools and colleges will be shut until March 31, 2020, and the examinations have been postponed for some sections. Besides this, public places like malls, cinema houses, parks, beaches, gyms and swimming pools have been closed as well.
Passengers travelling from some Middle Eastern countries will have to be under mandatory quarantine for the next 14 days and the government is trying the best to offer the best facilities for them. However, if passengers choose to stay at hotels, arrangements have been made, where they can choose from the listed hotels and stay, at a certain cost, on their own.
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