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Mumbai:
Mumbai reported its highest-ever one-day spike in COVID-19 cases on Sunday with 6,923 infections in the last 24 hours, authorities said. The city recorded 12 deaths taking the overall count to 11,653, they said.
The highest-ever spike comes on a day when Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asked officials to prepare a plan for implementation of a lockdown on the recommendation of the state COVID-19 task force amid a massive surge in the Coronavirus cases.
Maharashtra has seen a huge rise in coronavirus positive cases over the last week with as many as one lakh new infections being added to the state’s tally in this period.
In a meeting held with the chief minster, Health Minister Rajesh Tope and other officials, principal secretary to state health department Dr Pradeep Vyas said there will be a “tremendous stress” on the availability of beds, oxygen supply, and ventilators, which could fall short if the cases continue to go up.
The members of the task force also expressed apprehension that the state might report 40,000 fresh cases in the next 24 hours.
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