For the first time in more than a month, the “active cases” in Pune – which is the worst Covid-19 affected city in Maharashtra – dropped below one lakh mark on Monday, even as the daily deaths in Maharashtra dropped further to 549 and infections dipped to 37,236.
In a relief to the state health authorities, the “active cases” in Pune – which is the worst Covid-19 affected city in Maharashtra – dropped from 1,00,316 to 97,593.
The development came on a day when Pune recorded 10 new deaths and 4,685 new infections. While the total deaths in Pune went up from 10,049 to 10,059, the total caseload climbed from 9,26,124 to 9,30,809.
Currently, Pune has the highest caseload of 9,30,809, while Mumbai's total number of infections is 6,77,412, followed among other districts by Thane (5,38,963), Nagpur (4,66,959), Nashik (3,53,279) nd Ahmednagar ( 2,06,629).
It may be recalled that on April 9, the “active cases” in Pune had breached a grim landmark of one lakh, as an alarming 10,083 cases were reported on that day to take caseload in that city to 1,00,051.
Meanwhile, the Covid-19 graph showed a downward trend in Maharashtra for the second consecutive day on Monday, as the daily deaths came down further from to 549 while the infections dipped to 37,236.
A day after the State recorded 572 fatalities and 48,401 new cases, the deaths came down to 549, while the infections dropped by 11,165 to register a daily caseload of 37,236.
With 549 new deaths, the total number of deaths in the state climbed from 75,849 to 76,398. Similarly, with 37,236 new infections, the total number of cases rose from 51,01,737 to 51,38,973.
As 61,607 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 last year went up from 44,07,818 to 44,69,425. The recovery rate in the state went up from 86.04 per cent to 46.95 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 6,15,783 to 5,90,818 cases. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.49 per cent.
With 74 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai increased from 13781 to 13,855, while the infected cases went up by 1732 to trigger a jump in the infections from 6,75,630 to 6,77,412.
While Pune accounted for a maximum 97,593 “active cases” in the State, Nagpur stood second 56,458, followed by Mumbai with 47,054, ) Nashik (34,755), Thane (34,185), Ahmednagar (23,661), Solapur (23,028), Satara (22,463), Chandrapur (22,265), Beed (15,586), Jalgaon (13,711), Aurangabad (12594), Latur (12,085), Parbhani (11,010), Osmanabad (7568), Jalna (7015), Bhandara (6122), Buldhana (5687), Nanded (5487) and Nandurbar (3395).
Of the 2,96, 31,127 samples sent to laboratories, 51,38,973 have tested positive (17.34 per cent) for Covid-19 until Monday.
Currently, 36,70,320 people are in home quarantine while 26,664 people are in institutional quarantine.