fresh nCoV cases, one fatality

Mumbai (PTI): Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 334 fresh COVID-19 cases, 54 more than a day before, and one fatality, the health department said in a bulletin.

With the new cases, the state’s COVID-19 tally rose to 81,40,479 and the death toll to 1,48,430. On Tuesday, the state had recorded 280 cases and one fatality. One patient died of the viral disease in Solapur. The case fatality rate in the state is 1.82%. The active cases stand at 1,648.

The bulletin said 174 people recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 79,90,401. The recovery rate in the state is 98.16%. The health department said 6,440 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking the overall number of tests conducted in the state to 8,65,63,502.

In New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting on Wednesday to review the situation.

CM Shinde to visit Ayodhya on Apr 06 first time to the temple town since assuming power, it is to be noted that he and his supporters had visited the Kamakhya Devi temple while hunkering down in Guwahati, following his rebellion last June.

He also took a pledge that if a new government is formed, he will come again for darshan. Accordingly, after the transfer of power in Maharashtra, the MLAs of the Shinde group again went to Guwahati and visited Kamakhya Devi.

When Uddhav Thackeray toured Ayodhya after becoming chief minister, he did so without his entourage.