Maharashtra: Six districts report most +ve Covid cases, Mumbai under 400 for 4th day – Times of India

MUMBAI: As many as 71% of the new Covid-19 cases on Sunday were reported from six districts of Ahmednagar, Pune, Solapur, Satara, Kolhapur and Sangli. Maharashtra reported 6,479 new fresh cases, of which 4,584 were from these districts.
Pune reported the highest number of new infections (999), followed by Ahmednagar (888), Sangli (754), Solapur (691), Satara (642) and Kolhapur (610). These districts also continue to account for the highest number of active cases and deaths in the state at present. Pune, for instance, is the only district to have more than 15,000 active cases currently in Maharashtra. Satara and Sangli have the second and third highest active cases. All these districts are expected to see the continuation of restrictions, state officials said.
Barring them, most other districts continued to register a decline in cases and deaths. One of the most populated, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, too reported less than 1,000 new cases for the second day in a row. The state’s addition of 6,479 cases and 157 deaths on Sunday took the count of overall cases to 63,10,194 and deaths to 1,32,948. Mumbai’s new cases continued to be under 400 (331) for the fourth day in a row. The city’s overall case count stood at 7,35,107 on Sunday.
Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said the city’s growth rate is currently very low at 0.05%. “We are trying our best to continue at that rate. Testing has not dropped either. Our current positivity rate is 1% or less on most days. Hence people need to continue Covid protocols and carry on with masking and social distancing,” he said.
In the heavy burden districts, it’s the rural parts, including in Pune, Sangli and Kolhapur, that are contributing to more cases. Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has scheduled a visit to Kolhapur on Monday in flood-affected areas to discuss the Covid-19 issue with local authorities. The Kolhapur region as a whole, which includes Sangli, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, detected 1,665 cases and 38 deaths on Sunday.
In the Nashik circle, Ahmednagar (rural) is the only one to see high cases. Nashik circle recorded 985 new cases and 29 deaths, of which Ahmednagar contributed to 873 cases and 22 deaths. Pune (rural), Sangli (rural) and Satara saw over 500 daily cases and two-digit deaths. CM Thackeray is also scheduled to meet Sangli collector on Monday.