The daily Covid-19 infections in Maharashtra dropped to 21,273 on Thursday, even as the pandemic deaths came down to 884 in the State.
A day after the State recorded 1,137 fatalities – comprising 601 fresh deaths and 531 previous unaccounted deaths and 24,316 infections, the situation improved in the state as the infections dropped by 3043, the daily deaths rose by 884 — comprising 425 current deaths and 459 previous unaccounted deaths.
With 884 deaths deaths reported on Tuesday, the total number of deaths in the state climbed from 91,341 to 92,225. Similarly, with 21,273 new infections, the total number of cases climbed from 56,50,907 to 56,72,180.
As 34,370 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 52,41,833 to 52,76,203 on Thursday. The recovery rate in the State rose from 92.76 per cent to 93.02 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state increased marginally from 3,15,042 to 3,01,041. The fatality rate in the state increased from 1.62 per cent to 1.63 per cent.
With 36 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai increased from 14,684 to 14,720, while the infected cases went up by 1258 to trigger a jump in the infections from 7,00,340 to 7,01,598.
The situation in Pune remained more or less the same as the “active cases” dropped from 45,655 to 43869.
Mumbai with 28,863 active cases stood second in the state, followed by Thane (21,404), Satara (21290), Nagpur (14900), Ahmednagar (13,806), Solapur (13410), Nashik (11,411), Beed (8435), Jalgaon (6806), Amaravati (6632), Aurangabad (5271), Chandrapur (4411), Osmanabad (4393), Jalna (4325) and Latur (4066).
Of the 3,40,86,110 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 56,72,180 have tested positive (16.64 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 22,18,278 people are in home quarantine while 19,996 people are in institutional quarantine.