The Covid-19 deaths dropped to 636 in Maharashtra on Thursday, even as the infections came down to 9,830 in the State. A day after Maharashtra logged 1,236 deaths and 10,107 fresh cases, the daily deaths came down by nearly half, while the infections dropped marginally by 277.
With 636 deaths reported on Thursday, the Covid-19 toll in the State jumped from 1,15,390 to 1,16,026.
With 9,830 fresh infections, the total infections in the state rose from 59,34,880 to 59,44,710.
As 5,890 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 last year increased from 56,79,746 to 56,85,836. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 95.7 per cent to 95.64 per cent. The total “active cases” in the state climbed from 1,36,661 to 1,39,960. The fatality rate in the state went up from 1.94 per cent to 1.95 per cent.
Pune with 18,887 cases continued to be remain first in the state in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Mumbai with 18,417 stood second, followed by Thane (14,088), Kolhapur (13,485), Sangli (11,490), Ratnagiri (7483) Satara (7298), Sindhudurg (5581), Ahmednagar (4829) and Raigad (4810), Nagpur (4742) and Nashik (4355).
Of the 3,88,57,644 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 59,44,710 have tested positive (15.3 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 8,50,663 people are in home quarantine while 4964 people are in institutional quarantine.