With no let in the continued surge in the fatalities and infections in Maharashtra, the daily Covid-19 deaths shot up further to 832 on Sunday, while 66,191 more people tested positive in various parts of the state.
A day after the pandemic claimed 676 lives and left 67,160 people infected in the stare, the Covid-19 crisis worsened as Maharashtra notched an all-time record of 832 deaths while the number of infections dropped marginally to 66,191.
With a tally of 832 deaths, the state surpassed the earlier highest Covid-19 toll of 773 recorded on Friday.
With 832 new deaths, the Covid-19 toll climbed from 63,928 to 74,760. Similarly, with 66,191 fresh infections, the total positive cases rose from 42,28,836 to 42,95,027 in the state.
As 61,450 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 went up to 35,30,060. The recovery rate in the state for the first time in several days rose from 82.02 per cent to 82.19 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state rose from 6.94,480 to 6,98,354.
The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.51 per cent.
While Pune accounted for a maximum 1,07,503 “active cases” in the state, Nagpur stood second with 80,624, followed by Thane (79,888), Mumbai (75,498), Nashik (42,898), Chandrapur (22,762), Ahmednagar (22,317) Latur (20,468), Satara (17,483),Palghar (17111), Aurangabad (16,324), Solapur (15,451), Raigad (14481), Jalgaon (13,499), Beed (13,028), Nanded (11542), Parbhani (11,189), Bhandara (10578) Gondia (9186) and Nandurbar (6258).
Of the 2,57,49,543 samples sent to laboratories, 42,95,027 have tested positive (16.68per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 42,36,825 people are in home quarantine while 29,966 people are in institutional quarantine.