The Covid-19 infections remained at a low of 9,350 in Maharashtra on Tuesday, even as the daily pandemic deaths – inflated by 1,070 “old” and unaccounted fatalities – jumped to 1,458 in the State.
On a day when as many as 15,176 patients were discharged from various hospitals across the State after full recovery, the state logged 1,458 deaths – comprising 388 current deaths and 388 old deaths, as against the 1,592 deaths recorded on Monday.
The Covid-19 infections remained very much control in the State registered 9,350 fresh cases as against 8,29 cases recorded on Monday.
With the State health authorities having not made any effort to prevent the delayed death reporting by the department’s officials at the district and corporation levels across the State, the state health authorities added 1,070 more “old” deaths to the state’s calmative tally as part of the ongoing reconciliation process.
The state health authorities have been adding the previous unaccounted deaths to the daily fatality almost on a day-to-day basis for nearly six weeks now.
Between May 1 and June 15, a whooping 35,783 deaths have been recorded in the state, of which 18,847 old deaths have been added to the State’s cumulative fatality tally, after reconciliation of figures.
During the last eight days alone, a staggering 10,898 deaths (June 8-407, June 9-400, June 10-1,522, June 11-2,213, June 12-1606, June 13—2288, June 14-1392 and June 15--1070) have been added to the state’s cumulative tally.
Meanwhile, with 1,458 deaths reported on Tuesday, the Covid-19 toll in the state jumped from 1,12,696 to 1,14.154.
The State, meanwhile, logged 9,350 infections, taking the total infections from 59,17,121 to 59,24,773.
As 15,176 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 56,54,003 to 56,69,179. The recovery rate in the State rose 95.55 per cent to 95.69 per cent. The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,47,354 to 1,38,361. The fatality rate in the state went up from 1.90 per cent to 1.93 per cent
The infections came down to 161 which is the lowest since the early weeks of the break out of the pandemic in March last year, while the metropolis logged 14 deaths. As result while the infected cases in Mumbai went up from 7,16,190 to 1716351, while the Covid-19 toll in the metropolis increased from 15,202 to 15,216.
Pune with 17623 cases continued to be remain first in the State in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the State, while Mumbai with 17,519 stood second, followed by Thane (14,032), Kolhapur (12,949), Sangli (10,668), Satara (7713), Ratnagiri (7321), Sindhudurg (5548), Nagpur (4735), Ahmednagar (4705) Nashik (4640) and Raigad (4023).