In an indication of near-flattening of Covid-19 curve in Maharashtra, a relatively low 7539 new infections were recorded, while 198 people succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the state on Thursday.
A day after 190 people died of coronavirus and 8142 others tested positive for the pandemic in the state, the number of infections dropped to 7539, while the deaths rose by 18 to touch a daily fatality figure of 198.
With 198 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll rose from 42,633 to 42,831. Similarly with 7539 new infections, the total infected cases jumped from 16,17,658 to 16,25,197.
On a day when 16,177 people were discharged from various hospitals in the state, the number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 14,31,856. The recovery rate in the state rose from 87.51 per cent to 88.10 per cent.
Of the 198 deaths, Mumbai topped the list with 49 deaths, followed by 20 deaths in Nagpur, 16 in Thane, 14 each in Ahmednagar and Pune, 11 in Solapur and 10 in deaths in Satara.
In the lower range, there were nine deaths in Sangli, 7 in Raigad, 6 in Kolhapur, 5 each in Palghar and Nashik, 4 each in Ratnagiri, Osmanabad and Bhandara, 3 each in Washim and Gadchiroli, 2 each in Latur, Beed, Yavatmal, Wardha and Chandrapur and one death each in Nandurbar, Aur/angabad and Gondia. In addition one person from outside the state died in Maharashtra.
With 49 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 9,912 to 9,961 while the infected cases mounted by 1,463 to trigger a jump in the infections from 2,45,869 to 247,332 now. The case doubling rate in Mumbai has gone up to 108 days.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate in the state stood at 2.64 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,58,852 to 1,50,011.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,26,785 to 3,27,670, while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 6581 to 6595.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections from 2,15,679 to 2,16,596 while the pandemic toll rose from 5238 to 5254.
Out of 84,02,559 samples sent to laboratories, 16,25,197 have tested positive (19.34 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 24,58,436 people are in home quarantine while 24,621 people are in institutional quarantine.