pune three individuals including two criticallyill patients with no history of recent international travel and proximity to close contacts of infected persons tested positive for novel coronavirus covid19 at private hospitals in the city late on monday evening and tuesday this has pushed the covid19 case tally to 31 in pune districtthe two critically patients with no apparent history of foreign travel developed viral pneumonia following which their throat swab samples were sent to the national institute of virology niv for testing as per the latest testing protocol set by the union health ministry both are currently on ventilator support another person down with the contagion is a 25yearold kothrud resident had returned from london on march 12 he was subsequently quarantined at the naidu hospital when he developed flulike symptoms one of three patients found positive for covid19 is a 51yearold man with viral pneumonia he is currently on ventilator support at a private hospital in erandwane he has no history of travel abroad he also did not come in contact with any known patient of covid19 we are tracing the link his contacts are now being tracked and quarantined we do not think it is a case of community spread a civic health official saida resident of wagholi who also has no apparent history of foreign travel or proximity to known contacts of covid19 positive persons is on ventilator support at a private hospital on ahmednagar road in pune he is a 48yearold man he tested positive for the contagion on tuesday morning his condition is currently critical the official saidin the state the mmr remains on top of the chart with 58 positive cases of which 41 are from mumbai the rest are from kalyan thane and navi mumbai among other placescivic officials in mumbai said the 65yearold patient had died on monday evening within hours of admission at kasturba hospital near saat rasta the dubaibased man had gone to a hospital in ahmedabad on 15 march with a complaint of back pain and came to mumbai a few days later he developed fever cough and breathing difficulty on march 20 and went to a private medical practitioner as his condition worsened he got admitted to kasturba on monday in a critical state and passed away the same evening he was a patient of uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension said dr daksha shah bmcs deputy executive health officer she added that the patients positive report came after he passed awaybmc officials confirmed that the patients final rites were performed at the shivaji park electric crematorium maharashtras public health minister rajesh tope said that of the total number of covid19 cases now under treatment 104 two patients are critical 60 medical staff go on mass leaveover 60 of the medical staffers mainly paramedics like nurses and attendants at bharati hospital have stopped coming to work after a 41yearold woman admitted at the hospital tested positive for covid19 on friday morning