Amid a grim battle being waged by it against Coronavirus, Maharashtra notched a positive milestone of 10 lakh recoveries on Saturday, as 23,644 more people were discharged from various hospitals after full recovery.
On a day when 430 more people succumbed to Covid-19 and 20,419 others tested positive for the pandemic, the number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 10,16,450.
With fresh 430 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in the state breached 35000 mark, as the total number of deaths shot up from 34,761 to 35,191.
Similarly, with the fresh 20419 new cases, the total infections rose from 13,00,757 to 13,21,176.
Of the 430 deaths reported on Saturday, Pune accounted for a maximum of 90 deaths, followed by 56 deaths in Thane, 44 in Mumbai, 28 in Sangli, 27 in Kolhapur, 21 in Satara, 18 each in Nashik and Solapur, 15 in Nagpur, 12 in Parbhani, 11 in Osmanabad and 10 in Jalgaon
In the lower range, there were 9 deaths in Chandrapur, 8 each in Ahmednagar and Aurangabad, 7 each in Raigad and Yavatmal, 5 each in Ratnagiri, Nanded and Wardha, 4 each in Latur, Amravati and Buldhana, 3 in Palghar, 2 each in Sindhudurg and Beed and one death each in Jalna and Washim. In addition, five persons from outside the state died in Maharashtra.
With 44 deaths, Mumbai’s Covid-19 toll went up from 8,706 8,750 while the infected cases rose by 2,282 cases to trigger a jump in the total number of infections from 194,303 to 196,585.
Meanwhile, for the seventh consecutive day, the state recovery rate rose from 76.33 per cent to 76.94 per cent. The mortality rate in the state stood at 2.66 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state went down from Friday’s figure of 2,72,775 to 2,69,119.
Pune district with 2,82,266 infected cases continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra. The number of deaths in Pune increased from 5534 to 5624.
Thane district remained on the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 1,80,838 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose from 4665 to 4721.
Out of 63,76,676 samples sent to laboratories, 13,21,176 have tested positive (20.74 per cent) for COVID-19 until Saturday.
Currently, 19,45,758 people are in home quarantine while 30,751 people are in institutional quarantine.