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Maharashtra: Face masks mandate likely to come back amid Covid spike

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PTI quoted minister Ajit Pawar as saying. "The use of face masks will have to be made mandatory if the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow," said Pawar.

He said the state government and its administrative machinery were keeping a vigil to ensure things don't go out of hand. This comes as Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of the Covid-19 task force on Thursday to review the situation.

This comes as Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 1,081 cases of the infection, the highest daily rise after 24 February, which took the overall tally to 78,88,167, while the death toll is 1,47,860.

On Tuesday, the state had reported 711 cases. Maharashtra's active tally of cases now stands at 4,032. Nandurbar, Dhule, Latur, Parbhani, Akola, Buldhana and Gondia have zero active cases. BMC warning The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday said that testing for coronavirus will be ramped up in Mumbai as the test positivity rate in Maharashtra capital has jumped to 6%.

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