Owing to the incorporation of the previous unaccounted fatalities, the daily Covid-19 deaths breached 1000 mark on third occasion in four days in Maharashtra on Tuesday, even as the state recorded 24,136 infections.
A day after the state recorded 592 deaths and 22,122, the daily deaths jumped to 1137 – comprising 601 fresh deaths and 531 previous unaccounted deaths, while the infections increased marginally to 24,316.
Tuesday was the third occasion when the daily deaths crossed the 1000 mark mainly because of the inclusion of the previous tally of unaccounted deaths.
Earlier on Friday, the state added 708 old unaccounted deaths to the state’s daily Covid-19 toll which went up to 1263. Subsequently on Sunday, 726 old unaccounted deaths were added to the day's cumulative daily death tally which rose to 1320.
With 1132 deaths reported on Tuesday, the total number of deaths in the state climbed from 89,212 to 90,349. Similarly, with 24,316 new infections, the total number of cases climbed from 56,02,019 to 56,26,155.
As 36,176 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 increased from 51,82,592 to 52,18,68 on Tuesday. The recovery rate in the state went up from 92.51 per cent to 92.76 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 3,27,580 to 3,14,368. The fatality rate in the state increased from 5.59 per cent to 1.61 per cent.
With 37 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai increased from 14,613 to 14,650 while the infected cases went up by 1029 to trigger a jump in the infections from 6,97,959 to 6,98,988.