As many as 10 ministers of the Maharashtra government and 20 MLAs have been infected with Covid-19, said state Deputy Cheif Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday despite the shortened Assembly Winter Session. He appealed to the people to follow the Covid restrictions to curb the spread of the infection.

Speaking to the reporters here after paying homage at the Vijay Stambh the memorial of Bhima Koregaon battle, Pawar said, "I want to appeal to the people that they need to understand that Covid is increasing rapidly in the state, as a result of which, we had to cut short our assembly session to 5 days only, and despite keeping so short winter session we have seen more than 20 MLAs and 10 Ministers of the government getting infected with Covid-19."