In an increase in the Covid-19 infections, the daily Covid-19 cases rose by 1,842 cases to touch a tally of 35,756 in Maharashtra on Tuesday, even as the daily pandemic cases in Mumbai rose marginally marginally from 1815 cases to 1858 cases.
On a day when no fresh Omicron cases were reported in the state, the Covid-19 cases in the state rose from 33,914 registered on Tuesday to 35,756 cases on Wednesday.
With the fresh cases reported on Monday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state went down from 75,69,425 cases to 76,05,181 cases. Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than eight days, witnessed a small increase in the number of cases from 1815 cases to 1,858 cases. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,38,505 to 10,40,363.
As 39,857 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 71,20,436 cases to 71,60,293 cases. The recovery rate in the state rose from 94.07 per cent to 94.15 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 3,02,923 cases to 2,98,733. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.87 per cent.
With no let up in the worsening Covid-19 situation in Pune, the active cases in Pune dropped from 93,642 cases on Tuesday to 92,973 on Wednesday.
The active cases in Mumbai rose from 21,185 cases to 22,364 cases, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane came down from 31,673 cases to 27,497 cases.
Nagpur accounted for 29,152 cases, followed by Nashik (18,017), Ahmednagar (11168), Raigad (9947), Satara (7907) and Aurangabad (8290).
Of the 7,38,67,385 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 76,05,181 have tested positive (10.3 per cent) for COVID-19 until Wednesday.
Currently, 15,47,643 people are in home quarantine while 3,298 people are in institutional quarantine. Meanwhile, no fresh Omicron case was recorded in Maharashtra. As a result, the total number of the new Covid-19 variant cases registered in the state stood at 2858.