Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope on Tuesday said the state cabinet has requested Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to ease Covid-19 curbs, in the wake of the viral infection cases going down, and they are hopeful that a decision on it will be taken this month.

Maharashtra on Monday recorded 407 new cases of coronavirus and four casualties that raised the infection tally to 78,65,707 and toll to 1,43,701. The state is now left with 6,663 active cases, as per official data.