The Covid-19 fatalities and infections appeared to be relatively on the lower side for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, as the State logged 116 deaths and 4,408 fresh cases.
A day after the Covid-19 deaths dropped to 100 deaths and the infections went down to 4,145 in the State, there was a marginal increase in the number of deaths and fresh cases in the State.
With 116 fresh fatalities reported on Monday, the total number of deaths in the State increased from 1,35,139 to 1,35,255, while the infections -- with 4,408 new cases – went up from 63,96,805 to 64,01,213.
As 5,424 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 61,95,744 to 62,01,168. The recovery rate in the state rose from 96.86 per cent to 96.87 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 62,452 to 61,306. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 2.11 per cent.
Pune with 14,325 active cases emerged as the first in the state in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Thane with 6985 cases stood second in the state, followed by Satara (6797), Sangli (5,915), Ahmednagar (5747), Solapur (5,131), Kolhapur (3157) and Mumbai (3048).
Of the 5,12,91,383 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 64,01,213 have tested positive (12.48 per cent) for COVID-19 until Tuesday.
Currently, 3,53,807 people are in home quarantine while 2,233 people are in institutional quarantine.