Maharashtra witnessed a drop in the number of Covid-19 fatalities and infections on Sunday, as 151 people succumbed to the pandemic and 6,555 others tested positive for coronavirus in various parts of the state.
As against the 295 deaths and record 7074 positive cases reported on Saturday, the number of deaths came down by 144 and infections dropped by 519 in the state on Sunday.
With 151 fresh deaths and infections, the total number of deaths rose to 8822. while the total number of infected cases jumped to 206619.
Of the 151 total deaths, Mumbai accounted for 69 deaths – taking the total number of deaths in the metropolis to 4,899, while the total number of Covid-19 positive patients rose by 1,287 cases to touch 84,524.
Apart from 69 deaths recorded in Mumbai, there were 31 deaths in Pune, 16 deaths in Thane, 11 in Aurangabad, 10 in Jalgaon, four each in Palghar, Dhule and Solapur, and two in Nashik.
In a related development, former chief minister and current leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnaivs – who has been extremely critical of the Uddhav Thackeray government for its failure to check the spread of the pandemic in the state – toured some of the worst-hit towns in Thane district and rooted for more Covid-19 tests, ventilators, ICU beds, and other facilities to curb the Covid cases and fatalities in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
The situation in the MMR (Thane Division) is bad considering that there have been a total of 6,401 Covid-19 deaths and 145,769 positive cases on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year touched 1, 11,740. The recovery rate in the state stood at 54.08 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 4.27 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 86,040.
Out of 11,12,442 samples sent to laboratories, 2,06,619 have tested positive (18.57%) for COVID-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 6,04.463 people are in home quarantine while 40,062 people are in institutional quarantine.