In Maharashtra, the number of patients recovering from COVID-19 is increasing by the day. However, about 10 to 12 per cent of the patients who went home post-Corona were found to have mental health issues. In the wake of increasing numbers of such cases, it has been decided to run some special counselling OPD’s in Pune.

The Administration has prepared a post-management plan for the recovered COVID-19 patients. Such special counselling OPDs will be started at five places within the limits of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations.

Teams of expert doctors will be appointed in these OPD’s. A toll-free number has also been set up to guide the citizens who are unable to come directly to the OPD.

On the other hand, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has accommodated Asha Sevika and Anganwadi Sevika in ‘My family, My responsibility’ campaign. It consists of about 500 Sevika’s and more than one and a half thousand squads have been formed. These teams aim to visit 55,000 homes.

Meanwhile, it was reported that in Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally crossed the 14 lakh-mark with the addition of 16,476 fresh cases. The state health department official said the state’s COVID-19 tally increased to 14,00,922, while 394 more deaths took the fatality count to 37,056.

The official said a total of 16,104 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of recovered cases to 11,04,426. With this, the state now has 2,59,006 active cases.

Mumbai city reported 2,352 positive cases during the day, which pushed its overall count to 2,07,620, while 43 fresh deaths raised the toll to 8,972. Pune city added 1,069 COVID-19 cases, raising its tally to 1,56,783, while 25 new deaths took the toll to 3,553. The state has so far conducted 68,75,451 tests.