In a drop in the number of fatalities and increase in the infected cases, as many as 91 people died of Covid-19 and 3,007 others tested positive for the pandemic in various parts of the state.
A day after 120 people succumbed to the pandemic and 2739 others tested positive for Covid-19, the number of deaths came down to 91, while the infected cases rose to 3,007 in the state.
With fresh deaths and infections, the total number of deaths mounted to 3060 and the total number of infected cases rose to 85975 in the state.
After taking into account 3060 total deaths and 39314 patients discharged from various hospitals ever since the outbreak of pandemic in the state, the state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 43591.
Of the deaths reported on Sunday, Mjumbai accounted for 61, while there were eight deaths in Solapur, six deaths in Pune, five deaths in Ulhasnagar, four deaths in Mira-Bhayandar, two deaths in Kolhapur and one death each in Palghar, Nashik, Jalna and Akola. In addition, one person from West Bengal died in Mumbai.
*Out of those dead, 64 were men while 27 were women. Forty six of the deceased were aged over 60 years, 41 were from the age group 40 to 59 years and 4 were aged below 40 years. “Sixty seven out of 91 patients (73.6%) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease,” a state health bulletin said.
There have been a total of 1289 deaths in Maharashtra during the previous 13 days. On May 26 (Tuesday) the state had witnessed 97 deaths, while there were 105 deaths on May 27, 85 deaths on May 28, 116 deaths on May 29 and 99 deaths on May 30, 89 deaths on May 31, 76 on June 1, 103 on June 2, 122 on June 3, 123 on June 4, 139 on June 5, 120 on June 6 and 91 on June 7.
With 61 new deaths and 1420 fresh infections, the total number deaths mounted to 1638, while the total infected cases rose to 48774. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that there were 25,940 “active cases” in the metropolis.
Some of the key observations made in Sunday’s report were: The recovery rate in the state is 45.72 per cent and the case fatality rate in the state: 3.55 per cent. Currently, as many as 5,58,463 people are in home quarantine. There are 77,654 beds available in quarantine institutions while 28,504 people are in institutional quarantine now.
Out of the total deaths reported today, 31 deaths occurred in the last two days and the rest are from the period April 13 to June 4.
There are 3654 active containment zones in the state currently. Total 18,515 surveillance squads worked across the state on Sunday and surveillance of 69.60 lakh people has been done so far