Maharashtra notched a milestone on the Covid-19 infections front on Saturday, as the number of infected cases breached 5 lakh mark to touch 5,03,084 after 12,822 people tested positive for coronavirus, even as 275 people succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the State.
With 275 fresh deaths, the total number of deaths in the state mounted to 17,367.
Of the total deaths reported, Pune accounted for highest 67 deaths, followed by 58 in Mumbai and 48 deaths in Thane district.
Apart from 67 deaths in Pune,58 in Mumbai and 48 in Thane, there were 17 deaths in Raigad, 14 in Palghar, 9 in Kolhapur, 8 each in Nashik, Dhule and Sangli, 7 in Solapur, 6 each in Jalna and Nagpur, 4 in Ratnagiri, 3 in Beed, 2 each in Ahmednagar, Jalgaon, Aurangabad and Yavatmal and one each in Satara, Latur, Osmanabad and Akola.
After being well below 50 mark for several days, the Covid-19 Covid-19 daily in Mumbai went up to 58, taking the total deaths to 6751 and seeing the total the daily infection tally increase by 1304 from 6,693 to 6751 and taking the total infected cases to 122316.
In a related development, as many as 11081 patients were discharged from hospitals in the state after full recovery, taking the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year to 3,38,262.. The recovery rate went up to 67.26 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 3.45 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 1,47,048.
Pune, which has emerged as the second worst-affected district in terms of spread of the pandemic, has recorded 1,09,988 infections and 2961 deaths till now.
With 103642 infected cases and 2961 deaths, Thane continued to be the second-worst hit district in Maharashtra.
Out of 26,47,020 samples sent to laboratories, 5,03,084 have tested positive (19 per cent) for COVID-19 until Saturday.
Currently, 9,89,612 people are in home quarantine while 35,625 people are in institutional quarantine.