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Maharashtra Covid-19 lockdown news live: Night curfew, monitoring go for a toss in Nagpur
The rapid spread of Covid-19 finally forced the Uddhav Thackeray government to announce lockdown-like restrictions across the state from 8pm on Monday. On weekends, a complete lockdown will be imposed. A state government notification issued late Sunday said all shops except essential services would remain shut till the end of the month, leaving people only Monday to buy non-essential goods this month. Maharashtra’s Covid-19 tally crossed 30 lakh on Sunday with the addition of 57,074 new cases, the highest single-day rise seen so far in the pandemic. Divisional commissioner Saurabh Rao on Sunday said that Pune will continue with the prevailing restrictions till April 9 when the next Covid-19 review meeting under deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar will take place. Stay with TOI for everything from your city.
Maharashtra Covid-19 lockdown news: State reports 57,074 new Covid-19 cases, 222 deaths
Maharashtra Covid-19 lockdown news: State reports 57,074 new Covid-19 cases, 222 deaths
The total Covid caseload of the state rose to 29.5 lakh on Saturday, and the total fatalities stood at 55,656. The total active cases in the state on Saturday were way ahead of the projections made by the public health department 10 days ago. The number of daily Covid-19 cases hit another peak of 10,827 in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Saturday on the back of the rapid rise in testing, which stayed above 31,000 in the region in the last 24 hours too. All district authorities have now been asked to ensure that beneficiaries on their way to vaccination centres are not stopped or inconvenienced by restrictions on movement. Friday’s order by collector Rajesh Deshmukh, mandating weekly RT-PCR tests for on-site employees of all industrial and commercial establishments, has drawn sharp criticism. Stay with TOI f