In an alarming development, the daily Covid-19 toll shot up a record 519 in Maharashtra on Tuesday, even as 62,097 people tested positive for the pandemic in various parts of the state.
Two days after the pandemic had claimed 503 lives on a single day in the state, Maharashtra logged 519 deaths, taking the total number of deaths in the state from 60,824 to 61,343.
Similarly, the number of infections rose from Monday’s tally of 58,924 to 62,097 on Tuesday. The state had recorded an all time high of 68,631 infections on Sunday, On Saturday, the state had recorded 67,123 infections.
With 62,097 fresh infections reported on Tuesday, the total number of infections went up from 38,98,262 to 39,60,359.
As 54,224 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 32,13,464. The recovery rate in the state for the first time in several days rose from 81.04 per cent to 81.14 per cent.
The total “active cases” cases in the state rose from 6,76,520 to 6,83,856. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.56 per cent to 1.55 per cent.
With 34 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 12,301 to 12,354, while the infected cases went up by 7192 to trigger a jump in the infections from 5,86,867 to 5,94059.
While Pune accounted for a maximum 1,117521 “active cases” in the state, Mumbai stood second with 82,761, followed by Thane (80440), Nagpur (78,484), Nashik (44,279), Ahmednagar (21,634), Latur (19,062), ), Chandrapur (15,744), Bhandara (15,186),Aurangabad (14779), Satara (14,183), Jalgaon (13,475), Nanded (13,233), Parbhani (12,964), Solapur (12487), Beed (11,359) Gondia (9762) and Nandurbar (7128).
Of the 2,43,41,736 samples sent to laboratories, 39,01,359 have tested positive (16.27 per cent) for COVID-19 until Tuesday.
Currently, 38,76,998 people are in home quarantine while 27,690 people are in institutional quarantine.