The daily Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra shot up by 4,490 cases to touch a tally of 43,697 cases on Wednesday, even as the pandemic cases went up in Mumbai by 883 cases to reach the daily tally of 6,032 cases. The State, meanwhile, recorded 214 fresh Omicron cases during the day, taking the total number of the new Covid variant registered to 2074.
On a day when the Covid-19 claimed 49 lives as against 53 deaths registered on Tuesday, the state recorded 43,697 fresh infections as against Tuesday’s tally of 39,207 deaths. With fresh infections, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state went up from 72,82,128 cases to 73,25,825 cases. Mumbai, which has been witnessing drop in the number of cases for the last few days, witnessed an increase in the fresh Covid-19 cases from 5,149 cases on Tuesday to 6,032 cases on Wednesday. With the fresh tally of fresh cases, the total Covid-19 cases rose from 10, 11,967 cases to 10,01,7999 cases. As 46,591 Covid-19 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 2020 increased from 68,68,816 to 69,15,407 cases. The recovery rate in the state rose from 94.32 per cent to 94.4 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state increased from 2,67,659 to 2,64,708. The fatality rate in state dropped from 1.94 per cent to 1.93 per cent.
Of the total recorded cases, Mumbai accounts for 31,856 active cases, while there are 68,834 cases in Pune followed by 55,570 active cases in Thane, Raigad (15,743), Nagpur (14,296), Nashik (12,759), Palghar (8701), Ahmednagar (6777) Satara (5443)and Aurangabad (4493). Of the 7,25,31,814 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 73,25,31,814 have tested positive (10.10 per cent) for COVID-19 until Wednesday.
Currently, 23,93,704 people are in home quarantine while 3,200 people are in institutional quarantine.