In another day of relatively low Covid-19 infections and fatalities, as many as 127 people died of coronavirus and 6,190 others tested positive for the parts of Maharashtra on Friday.
A day after Maharashtra witnessed 156 deaths and 5,902 infected cases, the daily death tally dropped to 127, while the infections went up marginally to 6190.
With 127 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra rose from 43,710 to 43,837. Similarly with 6190 fresh infections, the total infected cases jumped from 16,66,668 to 16,72,858.
As 8241 more people were discharged from various hospitals in the state, the number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 15,03,050. The recovery rate in the state rose from 89.69 per cent to 89.85 per cent.
Of the 127 deaths reported, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 32 deaths, while there were 15 deaths in Thane and 14 in Pune.
In the lower range, there were 8 deaths in Aurangabad, 6 in Solapur, 5 each in Beed and Nagpur, 4 each in Raigad, Ahmednagar and Jalna, 3 each in Sangli and Latur, 2 each in Nandurbar, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri, Akola, Yavatmal, Wardha and Bhandara and one death each in Nashik, Jalgaon, Satara, Parbhani, Osmanabad, Buldhana, Washim, Gondia and Chandrapur. In addition, one person from outside the state died in Maharashtra.
With 32 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 10,229 to 10,261 while the infected cases shot up by 1,145 to trigger a jump in the infections from 255,360 to 256,505.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate in the state stood at 2.62 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,27,603 to 1,25,418.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from to 3,32,354 to 3,33,106 while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 6657 to 6,671.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,21,770 to 2,22,507 while the pandemic toll climbed from 5,316 to 5331.
Out of 89,06,826 samples sent to laboratories, 16,72,858 have tested positive (18.78 per cent) for COVID-19 until Friday.
Currently, 25,29,462 people are in home quarantine while 12,411 people are in institutional quarantine.
