In somewhat marginal fluctuations in the Covid-19 fatalities and infected cases, the daily deaths dropped to 125, while the infections rose to 5092 in Maharashtra on Sunday.
A day after the infections plummeted to 3.959 and the number of deaths rose to 150, the daily infections went up to 5092, while the deaths came down to 125.
Out of the 125 deaths reported on Sunday, 60 are from the last 48 hours and 14 were from last week. As part of reconciliation, another 15 deaths were added to Sunday’s death tally which went up in the process to 125.
With 5092 new infected cases, the total infections in the state jumped from 17,14,273 to 17,19,858. Similarly, the Covid-19 toll in the state went up from 45,115 to 45,240.
As 8,232 more people were discharged from various hospitals the number of people discharged from the hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 15,77,322. The recovery rate in the state rose from 91.53 per cent to 91.71 per cent.
Of the 125 deaths (including 15 additional reconciled deaths) reported, Thane accounted for a maximum of 25 deaths, followed by 23 deaths in Mumbai and 15 in Pune.
In the lower range, nine deaths each in Solapur and Satara, 5 each in Sangli and Nanded, 4 each in Raigad and Beed, 3 each in Nashik, Ahmednagar, Ratnagiri, Latur and Buldhana, 2 each in Palghar, Kolhapur and Bhandara and one death each in Jalgaon, Akola, Nagpur, Chandrapur, besides one from another state.
With 23 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai climbed from 10,422 to 10,445, while the infected cases rose by 1,003 to trigger a jump in the to6tal infections from 263,049 to 264,545.
Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” in the state came down one lakh mark as the total cases dropped from 99,151 to 96,372.. The fatality rate in the state stood at 2.63 per cent.
Currently, 10,51,321 people are in home quarantine while 7,912 people are in institutional quarantine.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 3,38,071 to 3,38,583 while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 7045 to 7060.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,27,150 to 2,27,772, while the pandemic toll climbed from 5267 to 5292.
Meanwhile, out of 94,40,535 samples sent to laboratories, 17,19,858 have tested positive (18.22 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.