With no let up in the spread of the pandemic, the daily Covid-19 cases jumped up by as many as 2,699 cases to touch a tally of 8,067 cases in Maharashtra on Friday, even the Omicron cases dipped substantially to just four cases in the State.
On a day when it claimed eight lives in the state, the Covid-19 cases rose from 5,368 cases on Thursday to 8067 cases, taking the total number of the cases from 66,70,754 to 66,78,821 cases. A day after the State recorded an all-time high of 198 omicron cases, the new Covid-19 variant cases dropped to four cases. With the latest tally, the total number of Omicron cases went up to 450 cases.
Mumbai bore the maximum brunt of the pandemic, as the Covid-19 infections jumped by 5428 cases and the metropolis did not record any omicron cases on Friday.
With 5428 fresh cases, the total number Covid-19 cases jumped from 779031 to 784459 cases during the last 24 hours.
As 1766 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 65,07,330 to 65,09,096. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 95.55 per cent to 95.46 cases.
The number of “active cases” in the state increased 18,217 cases to 25,509 cases. The fatality rate in the state stood static dropped from 2.12 to 2.11 per cent.
Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 11,441 cases, while there were 2566 active cases in Pune. There were 2,656 active cases in Thane, followed by Nashik (487), Palghar (413), Raigad ( 378), Ahmednagar (369), Satara (245) and Nagpur (19).
Of the 6,90,10,153 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 66,78,821 have tested positive (9.68 per cent) for COVID-19 until Friday. Currently, 1,55,592 people are in home quarantine while 1,079 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, the State recorded four cases of Omicron, taking the total number of new Covid-19 variant cases to 454 cases.
One case each of Omicron was reported from Vasai-Virar, Navi Mumbai, Mira-Bhyandar and Panvel. The following is the break-up of a total 454 Omicron cases recorded in the state so far, Mumbai: 327, Pimpri-Chinchwad: 26, Pune rural --18, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Thane MC- 12 each, Navi Mumbai, Panvel and Kalyan Dombivli—7 each, Satara, Nagpur—6 each, Osmanabad – 5, Vasai-Virar-4, Nanded—3, Aurangbad, Nanded, Buldhana, Bhiwandi-Nizampur—2 each.