Maharashtra breached the Covid-19 infections’ mark of 14,000 for the second consecutive day on Friday, as it recorded second highest-ever 14,161 infected cases, while it logged 339 pandemic deaths in various parts of the state.
A day after highest-ever 14,492 people had tested positive for the pandemic in the State, 14,161 new infections were reported on Friday, taking the total number of infected cases in the State to 6,57,450.
Pune with 1,44,450 fresh cases continued to race ahead of Mumbai with 1,34,228 in terms of the total infections.
With fresh fatalities, the total number of deaths in the state rose to a staggering 21,698.
Of the 339 deaths reported on Friday, Pune accounted for a highest of 81 deaths, followed by 46 deaths in Thane and 42 in Mumbai.
Similarly, in the middle range, there were 20 deaths in Kolhapur, 17 in Nagpur, 16 each in Palghar and Nashik, 13 in Satara, 12 in Sangli in the middle range.
On the lower side, there were 9 deaths each in Raigad and Beed, 8 each in Jalgaon and Solapur, 6 each in Parbhani and Nanded, 5 each in Dhule, Ratnagiri and Osmanabad, 4 in Ahmednagar, 2 each in Jalna, Hingoli and Yavatmal and one dearth each in Nandurbar, Aurangabad, Latur and Washim. In addition, one person from another state died in Maharashtra.
At 42 deaths, Mumbai’s daily fatality tally continued to below 50 fatality-mark. The total number of deaths in the metropolis rose from 7314 to 7,356 while the total number of infected cases increased by 1406 to touch 1,34,228.
Meanwhile, as many as 11,749 patients were discharged from hospitals in the state after full recovery, taking the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year to 4,70,873. The recovery rate stood at 71.62 per cent. The mortality rate in the state is 3.30 per cent. The state health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the state at 1,64,562.
Out of 34,92,966 samples sent to laboratories, 6,57,450 have tested positive (18.84 per cent) for COVID-19 until Friday.
Currently, 11,92,685 people are in home quarantine while 35,132 people are in institutional quarantine