In an offshoot of a reconciliation of deaths carried out by the health authorities in Pune where the number of fatalities shot up by 175, the daily Covid-19 toll went up by 300 in Maharashtra on Wednesday, while and 5,505 people tested positive for Covid-19 in various parts of the state.
In addition to 125 deaths reported from various parts of the state, the state authorities added 175 fatalities to the tally, taking the total number of deaths for the day to 300.
“Because of the reconciliation process of deaths in Pune today, there has been an increase in the progressive death figures of Pune rural and Pune Municipal Corporation by 116 and 59 respectively. Therefore, the total death figure of the state has increased by 175,” the daily medical bulletin stated.
With fresh infections, the total infected cases jumped from 16,92,693 to 16,98,198. Similarly, the Covid-19 toll rose from 44,248 to 44,548.
As 8728 more people were discharged from various hospitals the number of people discharged from the hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 15,40,005. The recovery rate in the state rose from 90.46 per cent to 90.68 per cent.
Of the 300 deaths (which included 175 old deaths) reported on Wednesday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum for 29 deaths, followed by 19 in Pune, 13 in Nagpur, 11 in Thane, 7 each in Nashik, Ahmednagar and Chandrapur, 5 in Solapur, 4 in Sangli, 3 each in Raigad and Satara, 2 each in Palghar, Parbhani, Latur, Yavatmal and Gondia and one death each in Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Buldhana and Gadchiroli.
With 29 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 10,323 to 10,352 while the infected cases increased by 983 to to trigger a jump in the infections from 259,857 to 260,840.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,16,543 to 1,12,912. The mortality rate in the state stood at 2.62 per cent. Currently, 13,35,681 people are in home quarantine while 11,648 people are in institutional quarantine.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,35,679 to 3,36,430 while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 6784 to 6978.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,24,823 to 2,25,470, while the pandemic toll climbed from 5208 to 5219.
Meanwhile, out of 91,85,838 samples sent to laboratories, 16,98,198 have tested positive for COVID-19 until Wednesday.