Mumbai: Coronavirus has been causing havoc in Maharashtra and a record number of cases were registered on Thursday. According to the data of the Maharashtra Health Department, as many as 25,833 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day so far. With this, Mumbai has also recorded the highest number of cases so far and in 24 hours, 2,877 people tested positive for coronavirus.
Prior to this, Maharashtra recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases on September 11 last year when 24,886 new cases were reported. At the same time, the highest number of 2,848 coronavirus cases were registered on October 7, 2020 in Mumbai. So far, more than 53,000 people have died due to coronavirus in Maharashtra.
Coronavirus cases are increasing rapidly in Maharashtra and the central government has described this as the beginning of the second wave of the virus. In wake of this, the Union Health Secretary Rajesh…