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Central team visits Thane, stresses on reducing mortality rate

A Central team on Saturday visited Thane district to review the Covid-19 situation and told local authorities to concentrate on reducing the mortality rate from the infection. The team said that the need of the hour was large-scale contact tracing, increasing the number of tests and setting up of more quarantine facilities.

As on Friday night, Thane district had 27,479 Covid-19 cases, with Thane city, Kalyan-Dombivali and Bhiwandi numbers being particularly worrisome.