A day after it recorded an all-time high of 423 deaths, Maharashtra on Tuesday witnessed the Covid-19 deaths fall to 380, while it recorded a relatively high 20,131 infections.
With the 380 new fatalities, the total Covid-19 tally climbed up from 27,027 to 27,407.
With 20,131 fresh infections, the total number of infections jumped from 923,641 to 943,772.
Of the total 380 deaths reported on Tuesday, Pune topped the list in the State with 68 deaths, while there were 56 deaths in Nagpur, 42 in Mumbai, 28 in Sangli, 25 in Kolhapur, 23 in Nashik, 22 in Thane, 16 each in Jalgaon and Satara, 12 in Solapur
Similarly, in the lower range, there were 9 deaths each in Ahmednagar and Nanded, 7 each in Aurangabad, Beed, Amravati and Chandrapur, 5 in Latur, 3 each in Palghar, Raigad and Ratnagiri and one death each in Dhule, Nandurbar, Sindhudurg, Jalna, Hingoli, Parbhani, Osmanabad, Yavatmal, Buldhana and Washim In addition, two persons from other states or countries died in Maharashtra.
There was a sharp spurt in deaths from the districts of Nagpur, Sangli, Kolhapur Nasik, Jalgaon and Satara, while as many as five districts in the state reported zero deaths.
With 42 fatalities Mumbai’s Covid-19 toll rose from 7,900 to 7,942, while number of infections went up by 1,346 to jump from 157,410 to 158,756.
Pune district with 2,07,435 infected cases continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra. The number of deaths in Pune increased from 4470 to 4538.
Thane district remained on the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 1,46,220 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose from 3986 to 4008.
In a related development, as many as 13,234 patients were discharged from hospitals in the state after full recovery. As a result, the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year, touched 6,72,556. The recovery rate stood at 71.26 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 2.9 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 2,43,446.
Out of 47,89,682 samples sent to laboratories, 9,43,772 have tested positive (19.7 per cent) for COVID-19 until Tuesday.
Currently, 15,58,305 people are in home quarantine while 38,141 people are in institutional quarantine.