After the downward Covid-19 trend witnessed for the past five days, the Coronavirus deaths shot up to 100 on Wednesday, while 5,011 people tested positive for the pandemic in various parts of Maharashtra.
A day after the Covid-19 deaths plunged to 68 deaths and infections dropped to 2840, there was once again a spurt in the deaths and infections in the state.
With 100 fresh deaths reported on Wednesday, the total Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra mounted from 46,102 to 46,202.
Similarly, with 5011 fresh infections, the total infections in the state jumped from 17,52,509 to 17,57,520.
As 6,608 more people were discharged from various hospitals the number of people discharged from the hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 16,30,111 The recovery rate in the state rose marginally from 92.64 per cent to 92.75 per cent.
Of the 100 deaths reported, Pune accounted for a maximum of 19 deaths, followed by 16 deaths in Mumbai, 8 each in Solapur and Nagpur, 7 in Nashik, 6 in Bhandara, 5 each in Thane and Chandrapur, 4 in Satara, 3 each in Raigad, Jalgaon, Beed and Yavatmal, 2 in Palghar and one death each in Nandurbar, Kolhapur, Sangli, Latur, Osmanabad, Nanded and Buldhana. In addition, one person from outside the state died in Maharashtra.
With 16 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 in Mumbai climbed from 10,599 to 10,615, while the infected cases rose by 871 to trigger a jump in the total infections from 270,660 to 271,531. Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases rose from 81,925 to 80,221. The fatality rate in the state stood at 2.63 per cent.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,42,547 to 3,43,213, while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 7176 to 7195.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,31,813 to 2,32,411, while the pandemic toll climbed from 5401 to 5406.
Currently, 7,50,992 people are in home quarantine while 5354 people are in institutional quarantine.
In a related development, out of 99,00,878 samples sent to laboratories, 17,57,520 have tested positive (17.75 cent) for COVID-19 until Wednesday.