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The state reported nearly 40,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its second-highest single-day rise in infection tally since the pandemic began, a health official said.
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A 38-year-old coronavirus patient who had to sit on a protest outside the municipal corporation in Maharashtra`s Nashik after allegedly being turned back by a number of hospitals died just after midnight on Thursday.
Babasaheb Kole was seen on a `dharna`, wearing an oxygen mask connected to a cylinder, last evening outside the civic body`s headquarters.
After about an hour, an ambulance from the corporation took him to the municipal hospital.
According to his family, at around midnight, his oxygen level went close to 40 percent.
A normal level of oxygen is usually 95 percent or higher.
Babasaheb died around 1 am in night.
"Two-three days back he was taken to Bytco Hospital.
From there, he went to another hospital, from there to the government medical college.
Medical College said no bed.