In a sign of vast improvement in the Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra, the daily infections dropped further to 6,436 on Monday, even as the daily cases in Mumbai came down to 356.
The daily infections remained below the 10,000 mark for the second day, even as the positive cases dropped from 9,666 on Sunday to 6,436 on Monday. With the fresh infections, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state rose from 78,03,700 to 78,10,136 With 24 fresh deaths, the total number of deaths registered in the state since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the state in March 2020 went up from 1,43,074 to 1,43,098.
Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than two weeks now, witnessed a drop in the number of cases from 536 to 356. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted to 10,51,729
As 18,423 Covid-19 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 2020 increased from 75,38,611 to 75,57,034. The recovery rate in the state rose from 96.26 per cent to 96.4 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,18,076 to 1,06,059. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.83 per cent.
The active cases in Pune dropped from 32881 on Sunday to 28078.
The active cases in Mumbai dropped from 5743 on Sunday to 5139 on Monday, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane rose from 8432 on Sunday to 7901 on Monday
Nagpur accounted for 14604 active cases, followed by Ahmednagar (7687), Nashik (4801), , Aurangabad (3768) and Satara (2864)
Of the 7,56,55,012 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 78,10,136 have tested positive (10.32 per cent) for COVID-19 until Monday.
Currently, 6,73,875 people are in home quarantine while 2383 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, no fresh Omicron case was recorded in Maharashtra on Monday, resulting in the total number of the new Covid-19 variant cases remaining static at 3,334.
Of the total infected people, 2023 have been discharged from the hospitals after they tested negative in the RT PCR tests.