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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Girish Bapat and other party MLAs from Pune wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the supply of COVID-19 vaccine quota for the Pune district. The letter also put forth a proposition to open up the vaccination process for people above age 30 to help contain the spread of the infection in the city.
On Friday, the Pune city administration had increased the COVID-19 testing up to 12,000 a day to combat the virus in wake of a spike in the number of the infection. The active number of cases in Maharashtra stood at 2,11,416 on Tuesday till 8 am.
Pune reported as many as 4,321 positive cases and 33 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Currently, the number of active cases in the district is 40,092.
