Maharashtra’s Covid-19 toll crossed 34,000 mark on Thursday, as 459 more people succumbed to the pandemic thus adding 1300-odd deaths to the Coronavirus tally during the last 72 hours, while 19,164 people tested positive for the virus in various parts of the state.
That there is no let up in the Covid-19 can be evidenced from the fact Maharashtra has had a total of 1330 deaths during the last 72 hours –392 deaths on Tuesday, 479 deaths on Wednesday and 459 deaths on Thursday.
With the fresh 459 deaths on Thursday, the total number of deaths in the state mounted from 33,886 to 34,345.
Similarly, with 18,164 fresh infections, the total infected cases jumped from 12,63,799 to 12,82,963.
Of the total 459 deaths, Mumbai – after a gap of more than six weeks – accounted for a maximum of 54 deaths, while there were 49deaths in Pune, 47 in Nagpur, 35 in Satara, 29 in Jalgaon, 23 each in Thane and Kolhapur, 21 in Sangli, 17 in Yavatmal, 16 in Akola, 14 each in Raigad and Nashik, 12 in Sindhudurg, 11 each in Ahmednagar, Osmanabad and Washim and 10 deaths each in Solapur and Latur.
In the lower range, there were nine deaths in Bhandara, 7 in Wardha, 6 each in Palghar, Beed and Amravati, 3 each in Aurangabad and Jalna, 2 each in Dhule, Nanded and Chandrapur and one death each in Ratnagiri, Parbhani, Gondia and Gadchiroli, besides 2 outsiders/foreigners.
With 54 deaths, Mumbai’s Covid-19 toll increased from 8,604 to 8,658 while the infected cases shot up by 2,163 to trigger a jump in the infections from 190,264 to 192,427.
Meanwhile, for the six consecutive day, the state recovery rate rose from 75.65 per cent to 75.86 per cent.
A day after Maharashtra posted 21,029 recoveries, 17,184 more people were discharged from the various hospitals, thus taking the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year to 9,73,214. The mortality rate in the state stood at 2.68 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state went up from Tuesday’s figure of 2,73,477 to 2,74,993.
Pune district with 2,74,421 infected cases continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra. The number of deaths in Pune increased from 5429 to 5478.
Thane district remained on the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 1,77,529 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose from 4624 to 4647.
Out of 61,90,389 samples sent to laboratories, 12,82,963 have tested positive (20.72 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday. Currently, 18,83,912 people are in home quarantine while 33,412 people are in institutional quarantine.