Coronavirus India Live Updates: Maharashtra reviews 166 new fatalities, highest since October

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan chaired a high-level assembly with state well being secretaries, municipal commissioners, and district collectors of 46 districts, essentially the most affected when it comes to rising instances and rising mortality. In the assembly, the Centre highlighted that 90 per cent of the Covid-19 deaths proceed to be within the class of these aged above 45 years.
Significantly, of the entire 36 districts in Maharashtra, essentially the most affected 25 account for 59.8 per cent of the entire instances reported within the nation prior to now one week.
In the assembly, the Centre spelled out a multi-prong technique — on efficient containment and get in touch with tracing for at the least 14 successive days — for the 46 districts, which collectively account for 71 per cent of instances and 69 per cent of deaths this month.
It additionally focussed critically on the alarming fee of deaths being reported in Punjab and Maharashtra, sources stated.
Top authorities sources, who had been current within the assembly, advised The Indian Express {that a} detailed dialogue was particularly held with district magistrates of Pune, Aurangabad, Nagpur, and Yavatmal.