In a significant drop in the Covid-19 infections, the daily Covid-19 cases came down by 12,519 cases to touch a tally of 28,826 in Maharashtra on Monday, even as the daily pandemic cases in Mumbai plunged further to 1857 cases.
On a day when the state recorded 86 Omicron cases in the state, the Covid-19 cases in the state dropped from 40,805 cases to 28,286 cases.
With the fresh cases reported on Monday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state went down from 75,07,225 cases to 75,35,511 cases.
Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than eight days, witnessed a further drop in the number of cases from 2,550 to 1,8567 on Monday. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,34,833 ro 10,36,690.
As 21,941 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 70,67,955 cases to 70,89,936. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 94.15 per cent to 94.09 cases.
The number of “active cases” in the state increased from 2,93,305 cases to 2,99,604 cases. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.89 per cent to 1.88 per cent.
With no let up in the worsening Covid-19 situation in Pune, the active cases in Pune shot from 89,673 on Sunday to 93,426 on Monday.
The active cases in Mumbai rose from 19808 on Sunday to 21,142 cases, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane came down from 38,597 cases to 35,478 cases.
Nagpur accounted for 26,122 cases, followed Nashik (16,268) Raigad (11,978), Ahmednagar (10,350) Satara (7812) and Aurangabad (7754).
Of the 7,35,11,861 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 75,35,511 have tested positive (10.25 per cent) for COVID-19 until Monday.