Indicating the sliding Covid-19 graph in Maharashtra, the daily infections dropped to 11,394 in the state on Saturday, even as the daily cases in Mumbai came down from 846 to 643.
On a day when no fresh omicron case was reported in Maharashtra, the daily infections in the state dropped by 2,448 -- from 13,840 cases on Friday to 11,394 cases on Saturday. With the fresh infections, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state rose from 77.82,640 to 77,94,034.
With 68 fresh deaths, the total number of deaths registered in the state since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the state in March 2020 went up from 1,42,940 to 1,43,008.
Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than two weeks now, witnessed a drop in the number of cases from 846 to 643. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,50,194 to 10,50,837.
As 21,677 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 74,91,759 to 75,13,436. The recovery rate in the state rose from 96.26 per cent to 96.4 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,44,011 to 1,33,655. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.83 per cent.
The active cases in Pune dropped from 42,755 on Friday to 39,739 on Saturday.
The active cases in Mumbai dropped from 7135 to 6367, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane rose from 9760 on Friday to 9,066 cases on Saturday.
Nagpur accounted for 17516 cases, followed by Nashik (6844), Ahmednagar (7672) Aurangabad (4412) and Satara (3850)
Of the 7,54,10,043 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 77,94,034 have tested positive (10.34 per cent) for COVID-19 until Saturday.
Currently, 7,95,422 people are in home quarantine while 2447 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, no fresh Omicron case was recorded in Maharashtra on Saturday, resulting in the total number of the new Covid-19 variant cases remaining static at 3,334.