After a gap of two days, the infected cases in Maharashtra crossed 6000-marked on Wednesday, as 6603 people tested positive for Covid-19 while 198 people died of the pandemic in various parts of the state.
Maharashtra -- where the infected cases had dropped to 5,368 and 5,134 positives cases on Monday and Tuesday respectively from the highest day’s count of 7,074 cases notched on Sunday (July 4) – had a cause for concern as the day’s infected cases’ tally touched 6603, taking the total number of positive cases in the state to 223724.
With fresh 198 deaths reported, the total number of deaths in the state rose from Tuesday’s 9,250 to 9,448 on Wednesday
Of the total 198 deaths, Mumbai accounted for 62 deaths, taking the total number of deaths in the metropolis to 5,064 now, while the total number of positive patients climbed up by 1,347 cases to touch 87,856.
Apart from 62 deaths recorded in Mumbai’s 62 deaths, there were 36 deaths each in Thane and Pune, 10 deaths in Jalgaon, eight deaths ach in Satara, Aurangabad and Solapur, six deaths in Raigad, five in Nashik, three each in Palghar, Kolhapur and Jalna, two each in Sangli, Nanded and Akola and one each in Ahmednagar, Nagpur, Yavatmal and Beed.
With 52,733 infected cases with 1,417 deaths, Thane has emerged as the second worst hit district in Maharashtra.
Pune, which has emerged as the third worst affected district in terms of spread of the pandemic, has recorded 30,704 infections and 962 deaths till now.
In a related development, the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year touched 1, 23,192. The recovery rate in the state stood at 55.06 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 4.22 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 91,065.
Out of 11, 61,311 samples sent to laboratories, 2,23,723 have tested positive (18.77%) for COVID-19 until Monday. Currently, 6,38,762 people are in home quarantine while 48,072 people are in institutional quarantine.