Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol on Monday returned to work after recovering from COVID-19. He had tested positive for the virus on July 4.
Mohol said that the citizens should not get scared and that the infection is getting cured. "Avoid getting infected and even if anyone is getting infected then don’t get scared. Our machinery is doing a good job," Indian Express quoted him as saying.
The Mayor was discharged from the hospital on July 9. However, the doctors had advised him home quarantine till July 15. “I was discharged from the hospital as I displayed no Covid-19 symptoms. I have been asked by doctors to stay in home quarantine till July 15. I am thankful to the medical staff. I will be back on the field after completing the quarantine period,” Mohol had said in a tweet.
He had gotten himself tested for COVID-19 after having slight fever. Later, his result came positive. "After having a slight fever, I got tested for COVID-19. My test turned out to be positive. However, my condition is stable and I will be back at your service soon. I will keep in touch with the administration and keep reviewing the COVID-19 situation," he had tweeted on July 4.
Meanwhile, Mohol said that his family has gotten cured after being infected but the city is yet to come out of the pandemic. “I was infected. My entire family was infected. I am cured. My family is cured, but my city is yet to come out of it,” he said.
In the last 24 hours, Pune district reported 2,601 new coronavirus cases, its highest single-day surge, taking the count to 54,013 on Monday, a health department official said.
He said the death toll rose to 1,387 with 44 more patients succumbing to the infection.
Also, 830 patients were discharged from hospitals in the western Maharashtra district during the same period, the official said.
"Of the 2,601 cases, 1,690 were reported from Pune Municipal Corporation limits (the city). In Pimpri-Chinchwad, the COVID-19 count increased by 657 patients," he said.
The number of positive cases in rural and Pune Cantonment Board areas increased by 254, he said.
(With PTI inputs)
