On Wednesday, September 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to chair a virtual meeting with the Chief Ministers and Health Ministers of seven states with a high instance of the coronavirus.
This meeting is to be held in order to review the status and the preparedness of the disease response and management. Moreover, more than 63 per cent of the active cases in the country come from these seven states/UTs, namely, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Punjab.
Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, Maharashtra has recorded 18,390 fresh cases of the coronavirus which took the COVID-19 tally in the state to 12,42,770 cases, as per the state health department. On the other hand, out of the 392 deaths reported, 243 are from the last 48 hours and 81 are from last week. Rest 68 deaths are from the period before last week. Out of these 68 deaths, 20 occurred in Pune, 7 in Ahmednagar, 7 in Nagpur, 7 in Thane, 5 in Kolhapur, 5 in Palghar, 4 in Satara, 2 in Nashik, 2 in Solapur, 1 in Chandrapur, 1 in Jalna, 1 in Osmanabad, 1 in Raigad, 1 in Washim, 1 in Mumbai and 3 of Karanataka residents.
Furthermore, 18,70,200 people are under home quarantine and 34,982 people in institutional quarantine. Out of 60,17,284 laboratory samples, 12,42,770 have been tested positive (20.65 per cent) for the coronavirus till date.
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