Mumbai: With 16 more persons testing positive for coronavirus in Maharashtra, most of them in Pune and Mumbai, the number of COVID-19 patients went up to 1,380 on Friday (April 19), the state health department said.
As per the latest update provided by the health department, Pune reported nine 9 new cases followed by Akola (4), Buldhana (2) and Ratnagiri (1).
With 1,380 cases till now, Maharashtra leads among states in the COVID-19 patient count.
In the meantime, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced to seal the Dadar-located Shushrusha Hospital and asked the private hospital to quarantine all its nurses and stop new admissions. It also said that all patients admitted at the hospital will be discharged in next hours. The direction from the BMC came after two nurses at the hospital tested positive for coronavirus. "Forty-eight hours have been given to the hospital to discharge the patients undergoing treatment there," a senior BMC official said.
So far, the BMC has detected six COVID-19 patients in the Dadar area, including the two nurses.
The BMC has already sealed a few private hospitals, including Jaslok Hospital at Pedder Road and Wockhardt Hospital at Mumbai Central, and quarantined their staffers after coronavirus cases were found in their premises.
The Kalyan-Dombivali area in Mumbai has reported six new positive cases of coronavirus while the Dombivali-east has reported five new cases. The total number of coronavirus patients in Kalyan-Dombivali now stands at 49.
The four coronavirus hotspots in Mumbai are:
G south ward (Worli area): 199
Byculla of E. Ward, Mazgaon area: 69
Malabar Hill of D Ward, Girgaon area: 61
Andheri West region: 51
On Friday (April 10), the country reported 547 new coronavirus cases in the last 12 hours taking the total number of positive cases in India to 6,412.
