Maharashtra on Friday recorded 1,263 Covid-19 deaths—including 708 old unaccounted deaths that were added to the day's cumulative tally, while the infections dropped marginally to 29,644.
A day after the State logged 984 deaths and 29,911 infections, the infections dropped to 29,644 while the State added 1,263 deaths – comprising 369 that occurred in the last 48 hours, 186 that took place last week and 708 old unaccounted deaths that were added to the state’s daily Covid-19 toll.
With 1,263 new deaths, the total number of deaths in the State climbed from 85,355 to 86,618. Similarly, with 29,644 new infections, the total number of cases climbed from 54,97,448 to 55,27,092.
As 44,493 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 that had breached the 50 lakh mark on Thursday, increased from 50,26,308 to 50,70,801 on Friday. The recovery rate in the state went up from 91.34 per cent to 91.74 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the State dropped from 3,83,253 to 3,67,121. The fatality rate in the state went up from 1.55 per cent to 1.57 per cent.
With 54 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai increased from 14,410 to 14,464, while the infected cases went up by a relatively low 1415 to trigger a jump in the
infections from 6,92,785 to 6,94,200.
The situation in Pune improved vastly as the “active cases” dropped from 64,084 to 58,840.
Mumbai with 28,579 active cases stood second in the state, followed by Thane (26,248), Nagpur (19,745), Solapur (18,881), Ahmednagar (18,479), Satara (17,513), Nashik (16,618), Amravati (9927), Beed (9734), Chandrapur (7713), Jalgaon (7696), Osmanabad (7240), Aurangabad (7056), Latur (5024), Jalna (4952) and Buldhana (4814).
Of the 3,24,41,776 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 55,27,092, have tested positive (17.04 per cent) for Covid-19 until Friday. Currently, 27,94,457 people are in home quarantine while 20,946 people are in institutional quarantine.