The “active cases” in Pune, which is the country’s worst Covid 19-affected city, breached a grim landmark of one lakh, even the infections in Maharashtra shot up further to a staggering 58,993 on Friday, as 301 more succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the State.
The situation in Pune, where a substantial number of cases is being reported on a daily for nearly one month, worsened further, as an alarming 10,083 cases were reported on Friday, taking the total number of infections in the city to 6,29,174.
With the substantial increase in the number of cases, the “active cases” shot past one lakh mark to touch 1,00,051.
Similarly, 43 more deaths were recorded taking the total number of deaths to 8575.
A day after the new cases in Maharashtra dropped to 56,286 from the previous day’s record tally of 59.507, the daily infections in the state jumped further to 58,993, while the deaths dropped to 301 from the previous day’s tally of 376.
With 58,507 fresh infections, the total caseload in the state climbed from 32,29,547 to 32,88,540. Similarly, with 301 new deaths, the total Covid-19 toll rose from 57,028 to 57,329.
As 45,391 patients were discharged from the hospitals across the state after full recovery, the total number of people discharged from the hospitals since the second week of March last year went up to 26,95,148 The recovery rate in the state dropped from 82.05 per cent to 81.96 per cent.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases in the state increased from 5,21,317 to 5,34,603. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.77 per cent to 1.74 per cent.
While Pune accounted for a maximum number of “active cases” in the state, Mumbai stood second with b88,53 active cases, followed by Thane (67,479), Nagpur (63,036), Nashik (35,019), Aurangabad (16920), Ahmednagar (16,287), Nanded (12,540), Jalgaon (8581), Amaravati (3787) and Akola (3157).
Of the 2,16,31,258 samples sent to laboratories, 32,88,540 have tested positive (15.20 per cent) for COVID-19 until Friday.
Currently, 26,95,065 people are in home quarantine while 24,157 people are in institutional quarantine.