“We are taking all precautionary measures and have stepped up the daily testing and the number of daily cases is high. As a precautionary step, I decided to impose a ten-day lockdown in the villages from where most of the cases were coming,” he said.īhosale, however, said that expansion of testing was also behind high number of daily cases registered in the district. “The daily cases are more concerning for us even though it has become stable. Rajendra Bhosale, district collector, said it was a precautionary step. Resumption of in person learning in schools at these 61 villages has not been allowed. The district administration has imposed a 10-day lockdown in 61 villages of the district starting Monday, October 4 and all shops, except essential ones will remain shut in this period and assembly of more than five people will not be allowed. Last week, it was recorded at 4.28%, which was also highest among all other districts of the state. The weekly positivity rate of the district is less than 5%. In the past five days, it has clocked 2,277 cases at a daily average of 455 new cases. Ahmednagar’s daily Covid infection was the second highest in the state after Mumbai. On Tuesday, it clocked 397 cases including 14 cases in the city.
However, districts such as Ahmednagar continue to be a cause for concern for the state by reporting 400 to 500 cases a day. The day also saw 39 Covid related casualties including 10 in Ahmednagar, taking the state wide toll to 139,272.Ĭovid-19 situation in Maharashtra is under control as the average daily cases is on a decline for the past few months and active cases has also declined in the past two weeks to hit a new low since February 5 when 33,936 cases were reported. The tally of active cases further reduced to 33,159 as 2,840 recoveries were reported in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra recorded 2,401 fresh Covid infections, pushing the count to 6,564,915 on Tuesday.
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