Coronavirus: Cases in Maharashtra reach 32
Maharashtra has reported 32 positive cases of novel coronavirus so far, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said in Mumbai on Sunday. The number of people infected by novel coronavirus in Maharashtra climbed to 32 on Sunday, with a 59-year-old woman and a man becoming the latest Covid-19 cases in the state, which tops the list in the country. While the woman who was admitted in a hospital in Aurangabad had a travel history to Russia and Kazakhstan, the man from Pimpri-Chinchwad township in Pune had travelled to Japan and Dubai before his return on March 3, officials said. State Health Minister Rajesh Tope earlier on Sunday reported 32 positive cases of novel coronavirus. He announced that the laboratory capacity to test samples of suspected novel coronavirus will be expanded to 350 per day from the present 100 per day at the civic-run Kasturba hospital in Mumbai in the next two days. Tope said another laboratory will be set up at KEM hospital in Mumbai in the next two day...