Maharashtra sank into deep despair on Friday, as the state recorded highest-ever day’s tally of 139 deaths and as many as 2,436 new infected cases.
With the fresh deaths and infections, the total number of deaths rose to 2,849, while the total infected cases jumped to 80,229.
Taking into the total number of deaths so far and the fact that 35156 patients have been discharged from various hospitals so far, the state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” at42,215.
Of the deaths reported on Friday, Mumbai accounted for 54 deaths, while there were 30 deaths in Thane 14 deaths each in Pune and Jalgaon, eight deaths in Malegaon, seven deaths in Kalyan-Dombivli, five deaths in Ratnagiri, two deaths each in Solapur and Nashik, one death each in Vasai-Virar –1, Bhiwandi and Aurangabad-1.
Of the 139 deaths today, 75 were men while 64 were women. Seventy eight were aged over 60 years, 53 were from the age group 40 to 59 years and 8 were aged below 40 years. “One hundred ten out of 139 patients (79%) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease,” a state health bulletin said.
Out of the total deaths reported today, 27 deaths occurred in the last two days and the rest are from the period from April 21 to June 2 2020.
In Mumbai, with 54 new deaths and 1459 fresh infections, the total number deaths mounted to 1519, while the total infected cases rose to 46080. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that there were 25,768 cases in the metropolis. Some key observations made in Friday’s health bulletin included: The recovery rate in the state is 43.81 per cent, while case fatality rate in the state i8s 3.55 per cent.
Currently, 5,45,947 people are in home quarantine. There are 72,375 beds available in· quarantine institutions. As many as 30,291 people are in institutional quarantine now.
There are total 83 laboratories functional in the state for COVID-19 diagnosis – 46 government ones and 37 private ones. Out of 5,22,946 samples sent to laboratories, 80,229 have been tested positive for COVID-19 until Friday.
The number of tests per 10 lakh population in the state is 3827, as against 2832 per 10 lakh population in the country.
There are 3479 active containment zones in the state currently. Total 18,026 surveillance squads worked today across the state and surveillance of 69.18 lakh people done so far.