The Covid-19 deaths in Maharashtra dropped to 32 and the infections came down to 2,171, even as the number of people discharged from various hospitals across the State climbed to 2,556.A day after Covid-19 claimed 57 lives and infected 2,405 others, the daily death tally slid to 32, while the infections dropped to 2171.
With fresh deaths, the total pandemic deaths climbed from 60,862 to 50,894 on Wednesday. Similarly, with 2171 new infected cases, total infections in the state climbed from 20,13353 cases to 20,15,524.
As 2556 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 went up to 19,20,006 The recovery rate in the state rose marginally from 95.24 per cent to 95.25 per cent..
With six fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 11,317 to 11,323, while the infected cases went up by 435 to trigger a jump in the infections from 306740 to 307174 to 3,04,653.Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases in the state dropped from 43,811 to 43,393. The fatality rate in the state stood at 2.53 per cent.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,86,220 to 3,86,543. while the total number of deaths in Pune went up from 7906 to 7910.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,67,187 to 2,67,467 while the total deaths climbed from 5752 to 5755.
Of the 1,43, 67,094 samples sent to laboratories, 20,15,524 have tested positive (14.03 per cent) for COVID-19 until Wednesday.
Currently, 2,00,159 people are in home quarantine while 2,615 people are in institutional quarantine.