Mumbai: The variety of coronavirus cases continued to rise with the state recording 49,447 new cases of infections and 277 deaths associated to the illness within the final 24 hours. The Centre stated Maharashtra has proven a nine-fold leap, the utmost improve within the variety of lively cases within the final two months.
Maharashtra presently has 4,01,172 lively cases of which 9,090 cases have been reported from Mumbai, it has a complete of 62,187 lively cases.
As per its COVID-19 bulletin, Maharashtra presently has 21,57,135 folks in dwelling quarantine and 18,994 folks in institutional quarantine.
CM Thackeray warns of lockdown
Stopping in need of declaring a lockdown, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray warned {that a} resolution should be taken and that presently consultations with consultants and political leaders was underway.
“I am warning about complete lockdown but not announcing it. I will speak to experts and political leaders in the next two days. If there is no other option to a lockdown, we will have to accept it,” Thackeray had stated on Friday in a sequence of tweets.
Further he had stated, “Some strict restrictions will have to be imposed in the coming days. In cities, we will need to avoid unnecessary crowding. In Mumbai, there is crowding during peak and non-peak hours in trains. There is crowding in restaurants and in other places as well.”
Schools and schools closed
Meanwhile, the state schooling minister Varsha Gaikwad on Saturday introduced to advertise all college students learning of Classes 1 to Class 8 with out exams in view of the continuing scenario because of COVID-19
Lockdown and night time curfew imposed in different states
The Odisha authorities on Saturday introduced that night time curfew could be imposed in 10 districts with impact from April 5, because of the rise within the variety of COVID-19 cases within the state, an official order acknowledged.
While, India on Saturday recorded 89,129 new cases — the very best since September final yr. Corresponding to the fast surge in cases, the variety of lively cases, too, have registered a gradual improve for the twenty fourth day in a row. The Union Health Ministry knowledgeable that eight states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh — account for 81% of the cases within the nation.
