The state of Maharashtra has strengthened restrictions with effect from Monday, amid worries of a third wave of coronavirus and cases of its highly virulent ‘Delta Plus’ form emerging. The new decision will have an impact on places such as Nagpur, Thane, and Pune, which have seen more relaxations than Mumbai, and remains under ‘level 3’ limitations despite qualifying for ‘level 1’, it allows all curbs to be withdrawn.
The Maharashtra government had announced a’state-level trigger’ for placing limits in administrative units regardless of the weekly positive rate or oxygen bed occupancy percentage earlier on Friday. The Maharashtra government implemented a graduated approach of relaxing lockdown-like limits in each district earlier this month, based on the COVID-19 weekly positive rate and oxygen bed occupancy.
Last Monday, however, the Maharashtra government changed the grading system and announced that the entire state will be subject to ‘level 3’ limitations. Positive cases 60,36,821, deaths 1,21,286, recoveries 57,90,113, active cases 1,22,252, total tests 4,10,42,198, tests today 2,10,866 are the numbers for Maharashtra in COVID-19.
