Pune, Dec 31 (PTI) The COVID-19 positivity rate in Pune city touched 5.9 per cent on Friday after 412 cases were detected following the testing of 6,944 samples, an official said.

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This addition took the tally within civic limits to 5,10,218, though no death was reported during the day, he said.

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There has been a steady rise in the infection count in Maharashtra's second-largest city and authorities have issued orders putting an attendance cap of 50 for marriages etc and 20 for funerals along with other curbs to reduce crowding.

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