In a relief to the State health authorities, the daily Covid-19 deaths dropped below the three figure mark to 90 and the infections dipped to a relative low of 4,869, even as 8,429 patients were discharged after full recovery from various parts of the State.
A day after the State logged 157 deaths and 6,479 infections, the daily deaths went down by 97, while infections dropped by 1,610 cases. With 90 fatalities reported on Sunday, the total number of deaths in the state increased from 1.32,948 to 1,33,038, while the infections -- with 4869 new cases – climbed from 63,03,715 to 63,15,063. As 8429 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 increased from 60,94,896 to 61,03,325. The recovery rate in the State dropped from 96.59 per cent to 96.55 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 78,962 to 75,303. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 2.1 per cent
Pune with 15,473 active cases emerged as the first in the state in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Sangli with 7,744 stood second, followed by Satara (7,416),Thane (6068), Ahmednagar (5857), Kolhapur (5580), Mumbai (5276) and Solapur (4,683)
Of the 4,83,52,467 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 63,10,194 have tested positive (13.6 per cent) for COVID-19 until Monday.
Currently, 4,61,637 people are in home quarantine while 3,103 people are in institutional quarantine.