Amid the alarming Covid situation in Maharashtra, 18 children have tested positive for coronavirus disease at a children`s home in an eastern suburb of Maharashtra’s capital of Mumbai, according to BMC. 

 "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, according to news agency ANI.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 4,666 new Covid-19 cases, which have taken its infection tally to 64,56,939, even as 3,301 patients were discharged. 

Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s health minister Rajesh Tope on Sunday said the state government plans to fully vaccinate all teaching and non-teaching staff against Covid-19 by September 5. Tope said while speaking to reporters in Jalna that a special drive was being conducted to vaccinate the teaching and non-teaching staff.

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