In its ongoing grim battle against Covid-19, Maharashtra on Friday crossed a milestone of one million infected cases, as a staggering 24,886 people tested positive for the pandemic, while a record 442 deaths were reported from various parts of the State.
On a day when the Covid-19 surpassed its earlier peak of 23,816 cases recorded on September 9, Maharashtra logged an all-time of 24,886 fresh infections, taking the total number of infections to 10,15,681.
With 442 fresh deaths reported on Friday, the total number of deaths in the state mounted to 28,724.
On the fatalities’ front, 393 deaths were reported today while 49 old deaths added after portal updation. “A total of 442 deaths have been included in today’s report. Out of these 442 deaths, 238 are from the last 48 hours and 105 are from last week. Rest 99 deaths are from the period before last week,” a daily medical bulletin put out byb the State Public Health department said.
Of the 442 deaths, Pune accounted for 59 deaths, while there were 50 deaths in Nagpur, 44 in Mumbai, 30 in Sangli, 29 in Satara, 26 in Thane, 19 in Ahmednagar, 15 in Kolhapur, 11 in Dhule and 10 in Aurangabad.
Similarly, in the lower range, there were 9 fatalities in Raigad, 8 each in Solapur and Amravati, 7 each in Nashik, Jalgaon, Sindhudurg, Parbhani and Beed, 6 each in Jalna and Yavatmal, 5 each in Palghar and Latur, 3 each in Ratnagiri and Osmanabad, 2 each in Nanded and Akola and one death each in Nandurbar, Hingoli, Buldhana and Bhandara. In addition, four person from other states/countries died in Maharashtra.
The districts of Nagpur, Sangli, Satara, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur and Dhule witnessed sharp spikes in deaths, while 5 districts in the state reported zero deaths.
With 44 deaths Mumbai’s Covid-19 toll rose from 8,023 to 8,067, while th34e number of infected cases increased by an alarming 2,191 to trigger a jump of total cases from 163,115 to 165,306.
Pune district with 2,23,710 infected cases continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra. The number of deaths in Pune increased from 4634 to 4693.
Thane district remained on the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 1,52,934 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose from 4092 to 4118.
In a related development, as many as 14,308 patients were discharged from hospitals in the state after full recovery. As a result, the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year, went up to 7,15,023.. The recovery rate stood at 70.4 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 2.83 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 2,71,566.
Out of 50,72,521 samples sent to laboratories, 10,15,681 have tested positive (20 per cent) for COVID-19 until Friday.
Currently, 16,47,742 people are in home quarantine while 38,487 people are in institutional quarantine.