Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 30 (ANI): As many as 18 children tested positive for COVID-19 at a children's home in Maharashtra's Mankhurd on Sunday.

According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), all children have been shifted to an isolation ward at a COVID centre in Vashi Naka.

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"Eighteen children have tested positive for COVID-19 at a children's home in Mankhurd. All children have been shifted to an isolation ward at a COVID centre in Vashi Naka," BMC said.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra's increase in COVID-19 cases continued on Sunday, with the State reporting 4,666 new ones against 3,301 patients being discharged.

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The active case tally rose to 52,844. As many as 131 deaths pushed the State's cumulative fatalities to 1,37,157. (ANI)

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