State Health minister Rajesh Tope said the government would be stressing on institutional isolation of Covid patients, mainly for rural areas in districts where the positivity rate is higher than the states weekly Average positivity rate of 12%.
Data from Pune shows that the number of weekly new cases has been on a steady decline for the last four weeks. The district had 68,254 new cases (April 26-May 2), 60,201 (May 3-9), 47,531 (May 10-16) and 25,483 (May 17-23). Maximum cases were reported from Baramati, Haveli, Indapur, Shirur and Daund talukas of Pune. An average dip of 20% has been registered.