In a spurt in Covid-19 infections and fatalities, Maharashtra on Wednesday logged 4,907 fresh infections and 125 deaths in various parts of the state.
A day after the infections dipped to 3791 and deaths dropped to 110, there was some upward movement in theGO Covid-19 graph in the state where the infections dropped by 1216 and deaths went down by 15.
With fresh 4907 infections, the total number of infected cases jumped from 17,26,926 to 17,31,833. Similarly, with 125 fresh deaths, the total number of deaths in the state rose from 45,435 to 45,560.
As 9,1,64 more people were discharged from various hospitals the number of people discharged from the hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 15,97,255. The recovery rate in the state rose from 91.96 per cent to 92.23 per cent.
Of the 125 deaths reported on Wednesday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 22 deaths, followed by 17 deaths in Thane, 16 in Pune, 9 in Satara, 8 in Solapur, 7 each in Aurangabad, Nanded and Nagpur, 6 in Ahmednagar, 5 in Nashik, 4 in Osmanabad, 2 each in Beed, Buldhana and Chandrapur and one death each in Palghar, Raigad, Dhule, Jalgaon, Sangli, Jalna, Washim, Wardha, Bhandara and Gondia. In addition, one person from outside Maharashtra died in the state..
With 22 deaths, the Covid-19 climbed from 10,484 to 10,506, while the infected cases shot up by 1,069 fresh patients to trigger a jump in the total number of infections from 265,679 to 266,748.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” in the state came down one lakh mark as the total cases dropped from 92,461 to 88,070. The fatality rate in the state stood at 2.63 per cent.
Currently, 9,41,118 people are in home quarantine while 6,551 people are in institutional quarantine.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,39,450 to 3,40,023, while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 7086 to 7102.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,28,538 to 2,29,097, while the pandemic toll climbed from 5319 to 5336.
Meanwhile, out of 96,00,328 samples sent to laboratories, 17,31, 833 have tested positive (18.04 per cent) for COVID-19 until Wednesday.