MUMBAI: Maharashtra has reported only 34 fresh covid-19 cases in the past 12 hours, much lower than the hundreds the state has been confirming over the past week.
Of the 34, 23 are from Pune, six from Mumbai, four from Malegaon in Nashik and one from Thane, taking the state's total to 3,236.
Maharashtra is also the first state in India to have crossed the 3,000 mark in the number of positive cases. The fall in the number of cases can be attributed to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC), Mumbai's civic body, decision to change its testing protocol and procedure.
On Thursday, the BMC had decided to selectively test asymptomatic high-risk people, against the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines to test all