As many as 221 people tested coronavirus positive in Maharashtra on Sunday, taking the state tally of COVID-19 patients to 1,982, a state health department official said.
Twenty-two coronavirus positive patients died due to the infection in the state on Sunday, which increased the death toll to 149, he said.
Mumbai reported the highest number of deaths at 16, followed by three in Pune, two in Navi Mumbai and one from Solapur.
Out of the total number of victims, nine were women, he said.
"Of the 22 deceased, 15 were in the age group of 40 to 60 years, while six were above 60 years of age," he added.
Twenty of these 22 victims had high risk co- morbidities, such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and heart ailment, the official said.
As per the figures provided by the department, Mumbai city has 1,298 positive patients now. The megapolis has reported 92 deaths so far. Pune city has 233 COVID-19 patients, while it has reported 30 deaths till now.
Thane division has 1,520 such patients and reported 106 deaths so far.
Pune division has 270 positive cases and 33 deaths, followed by Nashik division recording 47 cases of COVID-19 and death of four patients.
Kolhapur division has 38 COVID-19 patients, of whom one died due to the infection, while Aurangabad has reported 21 cases so far with the death of one patient.
In Nagpur division, so far 29 people have tested positive, of whom one died, while Akola has recorded 35 positive cases and two deaths so far.
There are 13 coronavirus patients in Latur division with no death reported so far, the official said.
There are nine persons from other states, who are undergoing treatment in Maharashtra, he added.
Of the 41,109 laboratory samples, as many as 37,964 tested negative, while 1,982 have tested positive, the official said, adding that so far, 217 in the state have been discharged after recovery.
The state has placed 61,247 people under home quarantine and 5,064 people are in institutional quarantine.
"A thorough search of citizens, who had attended the religious gathering at Nizamuddin in Delhi in March, is underway at the district and municipal corporation levels," he said.
Around 755 of these attendees have been traced and tested and 37 have been found to be coronavirus positive. Of them, eight are in Latur, while seven are in Yavatmal, six in Buldhana, three in Mumbai, and two each in Pune, Pimpri- Chinchwad and Ahmednagar, and one each in Ratnagiri, Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Hingoli, Jalgaon, Osmanabad, Kolhapur and Washim, the official said.
Apart from this, six contacts of these cases have been found positive in Ahmednagar and one in Pimpri-Chinchwad as well, he said.
As per the guidance from the Centre, a cluster containment action plan is being implemented in places where groups of patients have been found in the state.
There are total 4,846 surveillance squads deployed across the state and 17.46 lakh people have been surveyed, he said.
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