Aurangabad: In a bid to comprise the unfold of coronavirus cases, the Aurangabad administration in Maharashtra has imposed a whole lockdown on weekends now. Earlier, the district authorities had introduced partial lockdown on weekdays in the sunshine of surge in COVID-19 cases.
On Friday, the entire caseload in the district reached 57,755, whereas the variety of lively cases in the district stood at 5,569.
With the partial lockdown in place, the district administration had earlier introduced that monuments in the realm will stay shut until 4 April to deal with the rising COVID-19 cases.
Earlier, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday, throughout its weekly press convention expressed considerations over the COVID-19 state of affairs in Maharashtra and stated that the lowered testing, tracing and lack of COVID applicable behaviours have led to the surge in lively cases in the state.”We are very apprehensive about Maharashtra. This is a critical matter,” ministry stated.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra recorded this yr’s highest one-day spike for the third day in a row on Friday. The new COVID-19 cases tally, reported in the final 24 hours, stood at 15,817, taking the caseload in the state to 22,82,191, whereas the loss of life toll reached 52,723 with 56 new fatalities on Friday, as per the well being bulletin. Currently, there are 1,10,485 lively cases in the state.
