Mumbai: Even as the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) on Friday review readiness for the third wave and existing Covid-19-induced restrictions, the number of Covid-19 deaths rose 1,177 deaths in the last two days in the last two days.
Maharashtra added 200 Covid deaths on Friday and 121 deaths reported on Thursday; However, 596 long deaths added to the total victims on Friday and 318 were added on Thursday.
With this, the number of state deaths reached 1,25,034.
The country added 8,992 new cases on Friday, took the cashier to 61.4 lakh.
Mumbai added 596 cases and 13 deaths, took total tally to 7.2 lakh and death to 15.59.
In the SDMA meeting on Friday, Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray said that with the third wave warning, there should be no shortage of essential drugs and other supplies.
Officials said that there was pressure on the government to facilitate restrictions.
Dr.
Shashank Joshi, a member of the task force, said the ‘thick tail’ was a factor that was worried about countries such as Maharashtra and Kerala.
“It is the reason why it might be too early to think about easing restrictions.
We must apply strict detention steps and focus on the aggressive sampling genome,” he said.
The official said that the State must get rid of the requirements of the RT-PCR negative report and the quarantine rules for visitors who are fully vaccinated are also being considered, and the task force has been asked to give his opinion.
The meeting group will be held once again next week to tighten the relaxation given.
The state expects to receive more than 1,000 samples that have been sent for genome sequencing.
“Our main concern is still delta and not delta-plus until now,” said a state official.
Dr.
Joshi said that it was not like the north, where the second wave seemed to have ended, this virus was in an active transmission in Maharashtra and Kerala.