Samples of five more people tested positive for coronavirus in Maharashtra on Tuesday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 230, a health official said. Out of these five, four are from Mumbai while one is from Pune, the official said. So far, 10 deaths were reported from the state. Till Monday, 4,538 people were quarantined in various parts of the state of which 3,876 tested negative, while 220 tested positive. The figure of home quarantined people till Monday was 19,161 while 1,224 people were in institutional quarantine, the official said.
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Andhra Pradesh saw a jump in the number of coronavirus cases, with 17 testing positive since Monday night, taking the overall tally to 40, the medical and health department said in the latest bulletin. As many as 14 of the 17 new patients had attended the Jamat congregation in Nizamuddin area of New Delhi between March 13 and 15. While one person got afflicted upon his return from Medina, two others contracted it from a Mecca returnee in Karnataka. Prakasam district recorded the highest number of eight cases, followed by five in Guntur, two in Anantapuramu and one each in Krishna and East Godavari, the bulletin said. The bulletin said a total of 164 samples were tested since Monday night of which 147 turned negative.
Seventeen more people tested positive for coronavirus in Indore on Tuesday, taking the total number of such cases in Madhya Pradesh to 66, a health official said. So far, Indore has reported 44 COVID-19 cases, Jabalpur 8, Bhopal 5, Ujjain 5, and Shivpuri and Gwalior 2 each. Five coronavirus patients have so far died in the state, the official said.
