Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray has blamed the COVID-19 spike in Maharashtra on the unchecked entry of migrant workers, who returned to the industrial state to retain jobs. He said the state government didn't test the migrants on arrival or counted the number of people entering the various cities and towns of Maharashtra.

He said he had demanded that migrants who went back home last year be counted and identified while going home and after their return. He said the migrants have come from the states where testing was not done and the number of COVID-19 patients not maintained.