The Covid-19 infections dropped further to 13, 659 and the daily deaths came down to 741 in Maharashtra on Saturday, even as 21.776 patients were discharged from various hospitals in the State after full recovery.
A day after Maharashtra logged 14,152 infections and a staggering 1,377 deaths, the infections dipped by 483 and daily deaths dropped by 636. The daily deaths comprised 300 current ones and 441 previous unaccounted fatalities.
With 741 deaths reported in Maharashtra on Saturday, the total number of deaths in the State climbed from 98,771 to 99512. Similarly, with 13,659 new infections, the total number of cases climbed from 58,05,565 to 58,19,224.
As 21,776 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 55,07,058 to 55,28,834. The recovery rate in the State rose from 94.86 per cent to 95.01 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the State dropped 1,96,894 to 1,88,027. The fatality rate in the state rose from 1.70 per cent to 1.71 per cent.
Mumbai logged 863 infections, while it logged 29 deaths. As a consequence, the Covid-19 toll in the metropolis increased from 14,922 to 14,951, while the infected cases went up by 968 to trigger a jump in the infections from 7,08,994 to 7,09,857.
Pune with 22,280 cases continued to be remain first in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Kolhapur with 18,130 “active cases” stood second, followed by Mumbai (18,118), Thane (16,801), Satara (15,246), Sangli (10,288), Nagpur (9428), Ahmednagar (6831), Nashik (5880), Solapur (5861), Ratnagiri (5759), Sindhudurg (5572), Beed (4876), and Raigad (4817).
Of the 3,62,71.483 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 58,19,224 have tested positive (16.04 per cent) for Covid-19 until Saturday.
Currently, 14,00,052 people are in home quarantine while 7093 people are in institutional quarantine.