In a relief to the health authorities, the daily Covid-19 cases dropped by more than 10,000 cases to touch a tally of 25,425 in Maharashtra on Tuesday, even as the daily pandemic cases in Mumbai came down by 474 cases to touch a tally of 1384 cases.
On a day when 74 fresh Omicron cases were reported in the state, the Covid-19 cases in the state dropped 35,756 cases on Wednesday to 25,425 on Thursday.
With the fresh cases reported on Monday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state went down from 76,05,181 cases to 76,30, 606 cases.
Mumbai, where the daily infections have been dropping steadily for more than eight days, witnessed a drop in the number of cases from 1,858 cases to 1,384. With the latest cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,40,363 cases to 10,41,747 cases.
As 36,708 Covid-19 patients were discharged from the hospitals across the state after full recovery, the total number of people discharged from the hospitals since the second week of March 2020 increased from 71,60,293 cases to 71,97,001.
The recovery rate in the state rose from 94.15 per cent to 94.32 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 2,98,733 to 2,87,397. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.87 per cent to 1.86 per cent.
With no let up in the worsening Covid-19 situation in Pune, the active cases in Pune dropped from 92,973 on Wednesday to 90,303 on Thursday.
The active cases in Mumbai dropped from 22,364 cases to 18040 cases, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane came down from 27,497 cases to 24164 cases.
Nagpur accounted for 29918 cases, followed by Nashik (18416), Ahmednagar (11182), Raigad (9176), Satara (7449) and Aurangabad (8503)
Of the 7,40,12,958 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 7,40,12,958 have tested positive (10.31 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 15,31,108 people are in home quarantine while 3,259 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, as many as72 fresh Omicron cases were recorded in Maharashtra. As a result, the total number of the new Covid-19 variant cases registered in the state stood at 2930.
With 33 infections, une accounted for maximum of daily Omicron cases, followed by Aurangabad (19), Mumbai and Osmanabad (5 each), Thane (3). Yavatmal and Ahmednagar (2 each), Nagpur, Pune rural and Latur (one each)