In a marginal spike in infections and substantial increase in fatalities, as many 198 people died of Covid-19 and a record 6,334 others tested positive for the pandemic in Maharashtra on Friday.
On a when the infected cases rose from Thursday’s highest-ever tally of 6,330 to 6,334 on Friday, the number of reported deaths in the state went up from 125 to 198 during the last 24 hours.
With fresh fatalities and infections, the total number of deaths mounted to 8,376 while the total infected cases jumped from 1, 86, 626 to 1,92,990 on Friday. Of the 198 deaths, 150 deaths occurred in the last 48 hours and the rest 48 are from the previous period.
On a day when the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year touched 1, 04,687, the recovery rate in the state stood at 54.24 per cent.
The mortality rate in the state is 4.34 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the State at 79,911.
Of the total 198 deaths reported on Friday, Mumbai accounted for 73 deaths taking the total number of deaths in the metropolis to 4,762, while the total number of infected cases shot up by 1,338 cases to touch 82,074.
In addition to 73 deaths recorded in Mumbai, there were 50 deaths in Thane, 19 in Pune, 15 in Solapur, 6 each in Palghar, Aurangabad and Jalgaon, 5 in Jalna, 4 in Raigad, 3 in Akola, 2 each in Dhule and Amravati and one each in Nashik, Ahmednagar, Nandurbar, Latur and Gondiya. There were two deaths in other states.
With 43634 infections and 1075 deaths, Thane has emerged as the second worst-hit district after Mumbai in the state.
With 25454 infections patients and 826 deaths till now, Pune district has come third among the affected districts. Out of 10,49,277 samples sent to laboratories for testing, 1,92,990 have tested positive (18.39%) for Covid-19 until Friday. Currently, 5,89,448 people are in home quarantine while 42,371 people are in institutional quarantine.