A central team has warned that Maharashtra is at the "beginning" of a second Covid-19 wave prompting the Union government to tell the worst hit state on Tuesday to focus on strict containment strategies even as India recorded over 20,000 coronavirus cases for the sixth consecutive day.

"Maharashtra is in the beginning of a second wave of Covid-19 pandemic," according to the central team report.

Maharashtra recorded 17,864 fresh Covid-19 cases and 87 deaths on Tuesday, and 15,051 new coronavirus cases on Monday. The fresh cases of coronavirus have taken Maharashtra's caseload to 23,47,328. Of the new cases in the state, Mumbai accounts for 1922 infections.

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