Maharashtra in Beginning of Second Wave of COVID Pandemic, Says Centre

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday noted that Maharashtra is in the beginning of a second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and urged the State Government to focus on containment strategies and scale up its vaccination campaign.

In a letter to the Maharashtra Government, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that the state is in the beginning of a second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.

“There is very limited active effort to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts. There is no adherence to Covid appropriate behaviour among people both in rural and urban areas,” said Rajesh Bhushan.

“Central team inferred the administrative mechanism should be re-instated to the level witnessed in August-September to contain/suppress the COVID transmission,” he said.

The pandemic in the recent past showed a rising trend in Maharashtra, where active cases increased by 171.5 per cent in the last one month from 36,917 cases on February 11 to 1,00,240 cases on March 11, he added.