With no let up the Covid-19 deaths and infections for the second day, Maharashtra recorded 115 fresh deaths and 5,182 fresh infected cases on Thursday.
On a day when a relatively high of 8,066 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 this year crossed 17 lakh figure to touch a figure of 17,03,274. The recovery rate in the state rose marginally from 92.52 per cent to 92.7 per cent.
With 115 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra went up from 47,357 to 47,472.Similarly, with 5182 new infections, the total infected cases in the state climbed from 18,32,176 to 18,37,358.
A day after it recorded 20 deaths, Mumbai logged 18 deaths, resulting in the Covid-19 toll in the metropolis rose from 10,913 to 10,931.
The infections in Mumbai went up by 878, triggering a jump in the total infections from 2,82,818 to 2,83,696.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases in the state dropped from 88,537 to 85,535. The fatality rate in the state stood at 2.58 per cent.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,54,905 to 3,55,698, while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 7494 to 7507.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,41,858 to 2,42,509, while the total deaths climbed from 5329 to 5334. Of the 1,10,59,305 samples sent to laboratories, 18,37,358 have tested positive (16.61 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday. Currently, 5,48,137 people are in home quarantine while 5939 people are in institutional quarantine.