The recovery rate crossed 90 per cent in the country's worst Covid-19 affected State of Maharashtra on Monday, as the infections plummeted to 4009 and deaths dropped to 104 in various parts of the state.
Maharashtra -- which has been witnessing a steady increase in the recovery rate for the last several days – saw the recovery rate increase from 89.92 per cent to 90.31 per cent.
The development came on a day when 10,225 people returned home from various hospitals, taking the total number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 15,24,304.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,25,109 to 1,18,777. The mortality rate in the state stood at 2.61 per cent.
Currently, 25,33,780 people are in home quarantine while 12,195 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, a day after the daily infections dropped to 5369 and the deaths came down to 113 in the state, Maharashtra witnessed the daily infections come down to 4009. Monday’s was the second lowest number of infections in five months, Earlier on October 26, infections plummeted to 3645.
With fresh 4009, the total number of infections jumped from 16,83,775 to 16,87,784. Similarly, the Covid-19 toll in the state mounted from 44,024 to 44,128.
Of the 104 deaths reported in the state on Monday, Pune accounted for a maximum of 31 deaths, followed by 30 deaths in Mumbai, 9 in Sangli, 8 in Gadchiroli, 7 in Thane, 5 in Solapur, 3 each in Ahmednagar and Satara, 2 each in Raigad and Osmanabad and one death each in Palghar, Nashik, Aurangabad and Chandrapur.
With 30 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai shot up from 10,318 to 10,348 while the infected cases rose by 706 to trigger a jump in the total infections from 2,58,405 to 2,59,111.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,34,719 to 3,35,094 while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 6703 to 6734.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,23,802 to 2,24,300 while the pandemic toll climbed from 5345 to 5352.
Meanwhile, out of 90,65,168 samples sent to laboratories, 16,87,784 have tested positive (18.62 per cent) for COVID-19 until Monday.