In line with the ongoing downward trend in Covid-19 graph, the deaths dropped further to 112 and the infections went down further to 6,059.
A day after the infections dropped to 6,417 while the deaths came down to as low as 137, Maharashtra logged in 112 deaths and 6059 infections which are the lowest in more than four months now.
With 112 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll mounted from 43,152 to 43,264. Similarly, with 6059 infections, the total infected cases jumped from 16,38,961 to 16,45,020.
As 5,648 more people were discharged from various hospitals in the state, the number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 14,60,755 The recovery rate in the state rose from 88.78 per cent to 88.88 per cent.
Of the 112 deaths reported on Sunday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 46 deaths.
In the lower range, there were deaths each in Pune and Satara, 6 each in Thane and Nagpur, 5 in Sangli, 3 each in Nashik, Solapur, Jalna, Osmanabad, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli, 2 each in Palghar, Raigad and Jalgaon and one death in Ahmednagar, Ratnagiri, Beed, Nanded, Buldhana and Washim. In addition, one person from outside the state died in Maharashtra..
With 46 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai shot up from 10,059 to 10,105, while the infected cases rose by 1,222 to trigger a jump in the infections from 250,059 to 251,281.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate in the state stood at 2.63 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state rose from 1,40,194 to 1,40,486.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,29,205 to 3,29,856, while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 6595 to 6604.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections from 2,18,352 to 2,19,086, while the pandemic toll rose from 5,268 to 5,274.
Out of 86,08,928 samples sent to laboratories, 16,45,020 have tested positive (19.11 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 25,18,016 people are in home quarantine while 13,572 people are in institutional quarantine.