Maharashtra crossed a grim milestone of 20 Covid-19 infections on Thursday, as 2886 more people tested positive for the coronavirus, while the State recorded 52 more pandemic deaths. The development came 12 days after Covid-19 toll breached 50,000 mark on January 12. With 52 fresh deaths, the total pandemic deaths went up to 50,634 on Thursday. With 2,886 new infected cases, total infections in the State climbed from 19,97,992 to 20,00,878.
With 20,00,878 infected cases, Maharashtra -- which now ranks number 10 Covid-19 Worldometer -- is just below Germany which has recorded a total 20,92,767 infected cases. With a total fatality tally of 50,634, Maharashtra ranks higher than 50,385 deaths in Germany but lower than Spain’s 54,637.
As 3980 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 this year went up to 19,03,408. The recovery rate in the state rose marginally from 95.07 per cent to 95.13 per cent.
With ten fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 11,268 to 11,278, while the infected cases went up by 527 to trigger a jump in the infections from 3,04,126 to 3,04,653.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases in the state dropped from 46,769 to 45,622. The fatality rate in the state stood at 2.53 per cent.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,83,428 to 3,83,883 while the total number of deaths in Pune went up from 7878 to 7885.