: Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 5:49 PM IST
Maharashtra: No home isolation to be allowed in Pune, Thane, Nashik and 15 other districts with high positivity rate; check out full list
Mumbai: A BMC health worker takes swab sample of a passenger for COVID-19 test at a railway station in Mumbai, Monday, May 24, 2021.
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Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to stop home quarantining of COVID-19 patients in 18 districts where the positivity rate is high and all active patients in these areas would be admitted to COVID Care Centers, health minister Rajesh Tope said here on Tuesday.
Of 36 districts in the state, Satara, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Osmanabad, Beed, Raigad, Pune, Hingoli, Akola, Amravati, Kolhapur, Thane, Sangli, Gadchiroli, Wardha, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Latur have above-average positivity rates, as per the health department data.
Ordinarily, asymptomatic patients or those who have mild symptoms of coronavirus infection are advised home isolation.
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MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has decided to stop home quarantining of COVID-19 patients in 18 districts where the positivity rate is high and all active patients in these areas would be admitted to COVID Care Centers, health minister Rajesh Tope said here on Tuesday.
Of 36 districts in the state, Satara, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Osmanabad, Beed, Raigad, Pune, Hingoli, Akola, Amravati, Kolhapur, Thane, Sangli, Gadchiroli, Wardha, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Latur have above-average positivity rates, as per the health department data.
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Read more about Covid: No home isolation allowed in 18 Maharashtra districts, says Tope on Business Standard. The Maharashtra government has decided to stop home quarantining of Covid-19 patients in 18 districts where the positivity rate is high
No home isolation to be allowed in 18 Maharashtra districts with high positivity rate
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Last Updated: May 25, 2021, 05:44 PM IST
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Ordinarily, asymptomatic patients or those who have mild symptoms of coronavirus infection are advised home isolation. Now, the state government has decided to stop home isolation completely in these 18 districts. The district collectors have been asked to set up more COVID Care Centers (CCCs) and admit all active patients there.
State health minister Rajesh Tope said that the positivity rate in these 18 districts is higher than the state average.
The Maharashtra government has decided to stop home quarantining of COVID-19 patients in 18 districts where the positivity rate is high and all active patients in these areas would be admitted to COVID Care Centers, health minister Rajesh Tope said here on Tuesday. Of 36 districts in the state, Satara, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Osmanabad, Beed, Raigad, Pune, Hingoli, Akola, Amravati, K