The second wave spurt of Covid-19 cases continued in Maharashtra on Sunday, as the number of daily infections crossed 11,000 mark, while the daily coronavirus toll came down to 38.
After infections breached the 10000-mark for two consecutive days, Maharashtra on Sunday touched a new high of 11,141 in the second round of intense spread of the Covid-19 ever since it first broke out in March last year.
A cursory look at the increase in the number of cases being witnessed in the state since March 1 this year ( March -1: 6397, March 2: 7863, March 3: 9855, March 4: 8998, March 5: 10,216, March 6: 10,187 and March 7: 11,141) reveals that there has been a steady increase in the number of cases during the past one week.
There has been a mixed trend as far as deaths are concerned during the last one week. While there were 30 deaths on March 1, the death tally ever since then has been: March 2-54, March 3—42, March 4—60, March 5- 53, March 6—47 and March 7—38.
With the 11,141 new cases reported on Sunday, the total number of infections climbed from 22,08,586 to 22,19,727. Similarly with 38 fresh deaths, the total number deaths rose from 52,440 to 52,478.
As 6013 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 went up to 20,78,044. The recovery rate in the state dropped marginally from 93.36 per cent to 93.17 per cent.
With four fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 11,500 to 11,504, while the infected cases went up by 1361 to trigger a jump in the infections from 3,32,208 to 3,33,569.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases in the state went up from 92,897 to 97,983. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 2.37 per cent to 2.36 per cent.
There are a maximum of 20,347 “active” cases in Pune, followed by Nagpur (11,635), Thane (10,294), Mumbai (9319), Amravati (5037), Akola (4811), Jalgaon (4538), Aurangabad (4264) and Nashik (3741).
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 4,19,162 to 4,21,162, while the total number of deaths in Pune went up from 8087 to 8092.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,84,811 to 2,85,729, while the total deaths climbed from 5,831 to 5,834.
Of the 1,68,67,286 samples sent to laboratories, 22,19,727 have tested positive (13.16 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 4,39,055 people are in home quarantine while 4,650 people are in institutional quarantine.