In the maximum number of the single-day pandemic deaths in Maharashtra in recent weeks, the Covid-19 on Tuesday claimed 53 lives, even as the daily infections shot up to 39,207 cases, as against Monday’s tally of 31,111 cases.
A day after 24 Covid-19 deaths were reported from different parts of the state, 53 people succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the state. The Mumbai circle accounted for a maximum of 167 deaths, there were 13 deaths each in Pune and Kolhapur circles. The death tally in other circles is as follows: Latur circle-4, Nagpur circle-3, Nashik circle-2 and Akola circle—1.
A day after Maharashtra registered 31,111 cases, the daily infections rose to 39,207 taking the total number of cases recorded from 72,42,921 cases to 72,82,128 cases.
In Mumbai, the daily Coviod-19 infections dropped further from Monday’s tally of 7,895 cases to 5,149 cases on Tuesday. With the latest tally of fresh cases, the total Covid-19 cases in Mumbai from 10, 05,818 cases to 10, 11,967 cases. As 38,824 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, 29,992 to 68,68,816. The recovery rate in the state rose from 94.3 per cent to 84.32 per cent
The number of “active cases” in the state increased from 2,67,334 to 2,67,659. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.95 per cent to 1.94 per cent.
Of the total recorded cases, Mumbai accounts for 44,084 active cases, while there are 63,169 cases in Pune followed by 60,440 active cases in Thane, Raigad (15,518), Nagpur (12,635 Palghar (9667), Nashik (11,551), Ahmednagar (5926) Satara (4859), Ahmednagar (4738) and Aurangabad (3881).
Of the 7,23,20,366 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 72,82,128have tested positive (10.07 per cent) for COVID-19 until Tuesday.
Currently, 23,44,919 people are in home quarantine while 2960 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra did not record any new case of Omicron on Tuesday. The total number of Omicron cases in the state stood at 1,860.