In an unfortunate development, as per media reports, in Palghar, over 60 per cent of the deaths related to the coronavirus have been occurring within 72 hours of the patient being hospitalized.
The district administration, as a result, has been asking the residents of the area to not take any symptoms lightly and get themselves tested as soon as the symptoms occur. Moreover, in the last seven days, there have been 33 deaths related to the coronavirus in the district.
Earlier a complete 5-day lockdown was imposed from August 14 to August 18 in a bid to contain the growing number of COVID-19 cases.
In order to curb the number of deaths, the district administration has decided to ramp up the testing with screening camps being set up in villages or wards where there are more than five active patients. Also, 500 RT-PCRs and over 200 antigen tests are touted be done every day.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra, in the last 24 hours clocked 10,425 cases of the coronavirus taking the COVID-19 tally to 7,03,823. However, the death toll in the state reached 22,794 on Tuesday after 329 patients succumbed to the coronavirus.
In Mumbai, 587 people were diagnosed with the coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the aggregate to 1,37,683. According to the state health bulletin, India's financial capital has 17,938 active cases while 7,477 patients have succumbed to the disease.
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