Maharashtra first state to report more than 1,000 Covid-19 cases

A total of 150 people tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in the state Tuesday, out of which 116 were reported from Mumbai alone.

A person wears a bandana as a mask while seated in a meat shop during a lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus in Mumbai. (Representational image) | Photographer: Dhiraj Singh| Bloomberg

Mumbai: One hundred and fifty persons tested positive for coronavirus infection in Maharashtra on Tuesday, taking the number of COVID-19 patients in the state to 1,018, a health official said here.

Maharashtra thus became the first state in the country to report more than 1,000 coronavirus cases, he said.

Of the 150 patients detected on Tuesday, 116 were reported in Mumbai, he added.

Other new cases were reported from Pune (18), three each from Ahmednagar, Nagpur and Aurangabad, two each from Thane and Buldana, and one each from Satara, Ratnagiri and Sangli, said the official.