In a significant drop in the Covid-19 infections, the daily Covid-19 cases rose by 5,088 cases to touch a tally of 33, 914 in Maharashtra on Tuesday, even as the daily pandemic cases in Mumbai plunged further to drop marginally from 1857 to 1815 cases.
On a day when the State recorded 13 Omicron cases in the State, the Covid-19 cases in the State rose from 28,826 cases recorded on Monday to 33,914 registered on Tuesday.
With the fresh cases reported on Monday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state went down from 75,35,511 cases to 75,69,425.
Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than eight days, witnessed a further drop in the number of cases from 1,857 to 1815 cases. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,36,690 to 10,38,505.
As 30,500 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 70,89,936 to 71,20,436 cases. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 94.09 per cent to 94.07 per cent.