Tuesday’s Covid-19 cases raise Maharashtra’s total to 5.58 million.

Key Sentence:

• According to the state health department’s bulletin, Maharashtra reported 10,891 instances of Covid-19.
• Maharashtra has received 10,891 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 5.58 million.
• 682 new instances of Covid-19 were reported in Mumbai, bringing the total number of cases to 712,055. 

According to the state health department’s bulletin, Maharashtra reported 10,891 instances of Covid-19 and 295 deaths toward Tuesday, bringing the whole number of cases and deaths to 5,852,891 and 101,172, respectively.

On Monday, a total of 16,577 persons were found, bringing the total number of persons found to 5,580,925.

682 new instances of Covid-19 were reported in Mumbai, bringing the total number of cases to 712,055. Seven people have expired due to the infection in the last 24 hours, bringing the entire number of people who have died to 15,006.

The total number of instances documented on Tuesday is up from the previous day’s figure. On Monday, the western state reported 10,219 instances, down from 12,557 instances reported the day before.

On Tuesday, the state examined 211,042 samples, up from 1,87,172 samples examined on Monday.

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According to Dr Subhash Salunke, the state’s advisor on Covid-19 management, the recent drop was made possible by the state’s lockdown-like limitations placed on April 22 and the ramping up of testing facilities regular provision of essential medication in impacted areas. Salunke blamed the late onset of the virus for the upsurge in cases in places like Kolhapur.

“The lockdown, as well as other variables such as increasing the number of tests and maintaining a consistent supply of medication, resulted in a reduction in instances. Because the virus arrived late in places like Kolhapur, active cases will decline in the next 15 days,” said Salunke.

Uddhav Thackeray, the chief minister of Maharashtra, stated that the lockdown-like restrictions, which had been imposed in an attempt to manage the escalating number of instances, would be lifted as of Monday. 

On Sunday, a five-tier unlock strategy was launched, allowing locations with a positive rate of 5% or less and less than 25% oxygen bed occupancy to open up. 

However, no public movement is permitted in areas with a positive rate of higher than 20% and an oxygen bed occupancy rate of more than 75%.