A day after Maharashtra witnessed a moderate increase in the number of Covid-19 infections, the daily pandemic cases dropped to 15,252 on Thursday, even as the daily cases in Mumbai once again went down below 1000 to touch a tally of 827 cases.
On a day when no fresh omicron case was reported in Maharashtra, the daily infections in the state dropped by 2815 – from 18067 cases on Wednesday to 15,252 on Thursday. With the fresh infections, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state rose from 77,53,548 to 77,68,800.
With 75 fresh deaths, the total number of deaths registered in the state since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the state in March 2020 went up from 1,42,784 to 1,42,859.
Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than two weeks now, witnessed a drop in the number of cases from 1,128 to 827. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,94, 521 to 10,49,348.
As 30,235 Covid-19 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 2020 increased from 74,33,633 to 74,83,868. The recovery rate in the state rose from 95.87 per cent to 96.07 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,73,221 to 1,58,151.The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.84 per cent to 1.83 per cent.
The active cases in Pune dropped from 52265 on Wednesday to 46710 on Thursday.
The active cases in Mumbai dropped from 8158 to 7601, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane rose from 11676 on Wednesday to 10,636 on Thursday.
Nagpur accounted for 18,154 active cases, followed by Nashik (12142), Ahmednagar (8357), Aurangabad (5056) and Satara (4165)Of the 7,50,99,654 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 77,68,800 have tested positive (10.34 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 9,05,696 people are in home quarantine while 2,610 people are in institutional quarantine.