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Updated: May 10, 2020 4:40:09 am
An area in Pune was sealed with sheet metal after it was declared a containment zone on Saturday.
Maharashtra’s Covid-19 count crossed the 20,000 mark on Saturday with 1,165 new cases. The state’s total case count now stands at 20,228. The state also recorded its highest number of single-day deaths in 48, bringing the total count to 779. An assistant deputy police inspector was among those killed.
Mumbai, the city with the most cases in India, registered 722 new cases. The city’s total case count is 12,864 and the number of deaths is 489.
An assistant deputy inspector posted at the VB Nagar police station in Mumbai succumbed to Covid-19 on Friday. The test results that came after his death were positive. It is the fourth police personnel that succumbs to the virus in the city.
According to the police, the victim was diabetic. On May 6, he had a fever and shortness of breath, so his family took him to the Rajawadi hospital. “As soon as he was admitted, the doctors took his samples for the Covid-19 tests,” said an officer.
For the next two days, he was under treatment but around 2 am on Friday, he passed away. “Since the results of their test were not ready by then, family members were not allowed to carry out the final rites,” the officer added. Around 7.45 p.m. Friday, hospital authorities obtained the results of his tests, which confirmed that he was infected with Covid-19. Her family members have been quarantined.
So far, 714 police officers have been infected in the state which includes 81 officers and 633 police officers, of which 81 police officers recovered but five succumbed to the virus.
According to data released by the state government on Saturday, at least 27 people died in Mumbai, 10 in Pune, eight in Malegaon, one in Akola, Nanded and Amravati. Authorities clarified that the eight deaths in Malegaon occurred between April 25 and May 8 and were verified on Saturday.
Statewide, the movement was sealed in 1,243 areas, which emerged as local hot spots. As of Saturday, there were up to 2.53 lakh people in quarantine in their homes and in government centers such as hotels, country houses, schools, shelters, sports complexes and marriage halls.
In Mumbai, the civic body has urged people to stay in their homes in isolation if they test positive but have no symptoms, comorbidities, or may be young. Civic officials said that to avoid deaths, the focus will be kept first on treating the elderly and people with comorbidities. Those with mild or mild symptoms have been asked by the BMC to first contact the 1916 Helpline and wait for a bed assignment. The Maharashtra Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) 108 ambulance was instructed not to transport patients to various hospitals until BMC assigns a bed to the patient. “This has been done to prevent patients from visiting various hospitals without knowing where beds are available,” said a MEMS official.
Meanwhile, 10 police officers posted to the Nirmal Nagar Police Station tested positive for the virus. Police Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Singhe (Zone VIII) said: “Our police officers were handling the crowd in Baharampada in Bandra (east), that is when we believe one of our officers became infected. However, when one of them started showing symptoms We sent him for the Covid-19 test, and since his report came back positive, all of his close contacts were tested and it was clear on Saturday that even they were infected. ”
Amravati recorded one more death on Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths in the district to 12. The victim was a 53-year-old man from one of the city’s containment areas.
Akola, who has seen 12 deaths so far, had 10 more positive cases on Saturday. Nagpur, meanwhile, has a total of 281 cases with 71 discharged so far.
With contributions from Nagpur
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