The Covid-19 infections dropped below 11,000-mark in Maharashtra for the second time in less than a week on Sunday, even as 309 more people succumbed to pandemic in various parts of the state.
Six days after the state recorded a daily infection tally of 10,244 on October 5, as many as 10,792 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the state.
With the fresh infections, the total infected cases in the state jumped from 15,17,434 to 15,28,226.
Similarly, with 309 new deaths, the Covid-19 toll in the state mounted from 40,040 to 40,349.
On a day when 10,461 people were discharged from various hospitals in the state, the number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 12,66,240. The recovery rate in the state rose from 82.76 per cent to 82.86 per cent.
Of the total 309 deaths reported on Sunday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 42 deaths, followed by 35 deaths each in Thane and Nagpur, 30 in Pune, 25 in Kolhapur, 20 in Satara, 19 in Ratnagiri, 15 in Sangli, 14 in Solapur, 11 each in Nashik and Ahmednagar and 10 deaths in Nanded.
In the lower range, there were 9 deaths in Raigad, 5 in Jalgaon, 4 each in Palghar and Akola, 3 each in Beed and Gondia, 2 each in Amravati, Bhandara and Gadchiroli and one death each in Aurangabad, Jalna, Latur, Osmanabad, Yavatmal and Chandrapur. In addition, two persons from outside the state died in Maharashtra.
With 42 deaths, the Mumbai Covid-19 toll went up from 9,391 to 9,433 while the infected cases rose by 2,170 to trigger a jump in the total number of infections from 227,276 to 229,446.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate in the state stood at 2.64 per cent. The authorities pegged the number of “active cases” at 2,21,174.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases to up to 3,15,774, while the total number of deaths in
Pune increased increased to 6248
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 2,04,437 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose to 5201..
Out of 76,43,584 samples sent to laboratories, 15,28,226 have tested positive (19.99 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 23,10,783 people are in home quarantine while 24,726 people are in institutional quarantine.