The beleaguered health officials in Maharashtra went into a tizzy on Saturday, as the state witnessed an all-time high of 7,074 new Covid-19 positive cases and the total number of infected cases crossed 2 lakh mark to touch an astounding 2,00,064 cases.
The day also saw a substantial increase in the number of reported deaths, as 295 more people succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the state. The total number of deaths mounted to 8671 in the state.
The number of new infected cases has been rising for the past three days. On Thursday, there were a record 6330 cases, the number rose to 6334 on Friday and touched a new all-time high of 7074 cases on Saturday.
Of the 295 deaths, 124 deaths occurred in the last 48 hours and rest 171 are from the previous period.
Of the total 198 deaths reported on Friday, Mumbai accounted for 68 deaths taking the total number of deaths in the metropolis to 4,830, while the total number of infected cases shot up by 1,163 cases to touch 83,237.
On a day when the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year touched 1, 08,082, the recovery rate in the state stood at 54.02 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 4.33 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 83,295.
Out of 10,80,975 samples sent to laboratories, 2,00,064 have tested positive (18.51%) for Covid-19 until today.
Currently, 5,96,038 people are in home quarantine while 41,566 people are in institutional quarantine.