The daily Covid-19 infections in Maharashtra rose marginally from 2,748 on Wednesday to 2,797, while the daily cases went up marginally in Mumbai from 255 to 259. With 2,797 fresh infections, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state rose from 78,50,494 to 78,53,291.
With 40 fresh deaths, the total number of deaths registered in the state since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the state in March 2020 went up from 1,43,492 to 1,43,532.
With the fresh 259 cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,54,732 to 10,54, 991. While the recovery rate stood static at 98 per cent, the overall growth rate of Copvid-19 cases in the metropolis for a period from February 9 and 16 dropped to 0.03 per cent. As 6,283 Covid-19 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 2020 increased from 76,75,578 to 76,81,961. The recovery rate in the state rose from 97.77 per cent to 97.82 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 27,445 to 23,816. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.82 per cent.The active cases in Pune dropped to 6722. The active cases in Mumbai dropped to 2113 on Wednesday to 1945 on Thursday, while the number of active cases in the neighbouring Thane dropped from 1513 on Wednesday to 1423 onThursday. Nagpur accounted for 2103 active cases, followed by Ahmednagar (2140), Nashik (1167) and and Aurangabad (1126).
Of the 7,68,76,774 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 78,53,291 have tested positive (10.22 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 2,51,023 people are in home quarantine while 1,146 people are in institutional quarantine. Meanwhile, no fresh Omicron case was recorded in Maharashtra on Thursday, resulting in the total number of the new Covid-19 variant cases remaining static at 4,456. Of these cases, 3,455 patients have been discharged after they tested negative in the RT-PCR tests. Till Thursday evening, 8904 samples had been sent for genome sequencing, out of which, results of 7,991 patients have been received, while the results of 913 samples are awaited.