For the fourth consecutive day, the pandemic toll remained above 50 in Maharashtra, as 65 more persons succumbed to Covid-19 and 2,250 others tested positive for coronavirus in the State. A day after Maharashtra notched a day’s highest-ever death tally of 76 persons, Covid-19 claimed 65 lives and left 2250 others infected in various parts of the State.
There were as many as 63 deaths on May 18, while the state recorded 51 deaths on May 18. With the fresh fatalities and infections, the total number of deaths rose to 1390 and infected cases mounted to 39297 in the State on Wednesday
Of the 65 deaths reported on Wednesday, Mumbai accounted for Mumbai accounted for 41 deaths, while there 13 deaths in Pune, three in Navi Mumbai, two each in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Ulhanagar and Aurangabad.
Of the dead today, 46 were men while 19 were women. Thirty two of them were aged over 60 years, 31 were from the age group 40 to 59 years and 2 were aged below 40 years. “Forty eight out of 65 patients (74%) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease,” a state health bulletin said.
Out of 3,07,072 laboratory samples, 2,67,775 tested negative while 39,297 samples tested positive for COVID-19 until Wednesday. There are 1849 active containment zones in the state currently. Total 15,495 surveillance squads worked across the state on Wednesday and surveillance of 65.11 lakh population was done. As many as 10,318 patients have been discharged till date after full recovery. Currently, 4,04,692 people are in home quarantine and 26,752 people are in institutional quarantine.