Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has reportedly asked collectors of all 36 districts within the State to make COVID task force of expert doctors in each district with an aim to trace and treat the Coronavirus patients in time.
Uddhav Thackeray set up a video conference with the collectors, revenue commissioners, and municipal commissioners to know the steps needed to take to contain the virus.
Referring to the success of a State-level task force of the doctors in treating the patients, he urged the collectors to take a cue from that experiment.
"The task force should comprise of experienced doctors who can maintain contact with the doctors based in Mumbai," Thackeray was quoted from the video conference.
Uddhav Thackeray also stressed that the Coronavirus patients might be recovered if treated in time.
He suggested the senior doctors could guide their juniors on treatment if they can't treat a patient due to their adulthood or age-related ailments.
Uddhav Thackeray has warned that the govt won't tolerate lethargy in submitting test reports by the private laboratories.
"The test reports must be submitted within 24 hours. we'll not tolerate the delay in any case," Uddhav Thackeray sternly said.

Maharashtra has improved its period of doubling the Coronavirus patients from 7 days to 23 days in two months. Its recovery rate at 50.4% maybe a little less than the national average of 53.8 %. But unfortunately, the State's death rate has gone up from 3.7% to 4.8%.

Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta said the speed of infection is more within the areas where there are 10 people, who came in touch with a positive patient, are being screened.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to adopt a tele-ICU facility to treat the COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICUs in seven districts - Mumbai, Thane, Jalgaon, Solapur, Aurangabad, Akola, and Jalna.
The facility has been developed by Medi Scape, a foundation launched by several doctors. it's a system to regulate a patient's health through a monitor installed at each ICU bed. The experts can advise the doctors on treatment based upon the readings on the monitor.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Friday disapproved of a Maharashtra government order that said that non-public labs cannot give positive test results of Coronavirus on to the patient. The order said that the report will first need to be submitted to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for review. SC has asked Thackeray govt to review its order.
Reacting to the order, Senior BJP leader Kirit Somaiya reportedly said, “Supreme Court has stopped the 'dadagiri' (bossing around) of the Thackeray government and therefore the BMC. On June 13, the private labs were told to not give positive Covid-19 test results to patients or their families. Today, the apex court has directed that the private labs will need to give the test reports on to the patients or their families.”
The BJP leader had recently written a letter to the BMC Commissioner Iqbal Chahal to withdraw the circular.
Friday morning the BMC chief also issued a circular saying that it had been made to profit the symptomatic patients who were not getting beds within the city. Consistent with BMC, private hospitals were admitting asymptomatic patients on the pretext of earning money.
BMC is yet to react to the directive.