: 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. (PTI Photo) 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.