BMC’s Deputy Municipal Commissioner Shirish Dixit (57) died of the deadly coronavirus on June 9. Posted in BMC's water department, Dixit had tested positive a couple of days ago. Dixit was home quarantined as he was asymptomatic. Dixit was home quarantined as he was asymptomatic. Mumbai, the country's financial capital, crossed 51,000 cases on June 9, around 700 more than China's Wuhan, where the global pandemic first surfaced in December, 2019. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wuhan is 50,333 including 3,869 fatalities. Maharashtra, the country's biggest coronavirus hotspot, meanwhile, stands at 90,787 cases, way ahead of the 84,000-plus cases in China. 42,638 people in the state have already recovered from the highly infectious disease. 2,259 people tested positive over the last 24 hours, a quarter of the record 9,987 cases reported across the country. The number of deaths went up by 120 in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 3,289, which is also the highest among states. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu MLA J Anbazhagan, who had tested positive for coronavirus, died in a hospital in Chennai on June 10. Anbazhagan, 61, a DMK MLA, was admitted to hospital on June 2 over ‘severe acute respiratory distress’ and had tested positive for COVID-19 at the time. Tamil Nadu is the second worst-hit state in India with over 34,914 COVID-19 cases & 307 deaths. The numbers in India now stands at 2,76, 583 with 7,745 deaths.
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