Maharashtra recorded 9,000-plus Covid-19 infections for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday, as 9,431 people tested positive, while 267 people died of the pandemic in various parts of the state.
After it recorded the highest-ever 10,576 infections on July 22 and witnessed 9895, 9,615 and 9,251 cases on July 23, 24 and 25 respectively, Maharashtra logged 9,431 new infected cases, taking the total number of positive cases to 3,75,799.
With fresh 267 fatalities, the total number of deaths in the state mounted to 13,656.
There has been a substantial number of deaths for the past one week. The break-up of deaths in the state since July 20 is: July 20- 176, July 21—246, July 22—280, July 23—298, July 24—278, July 25-257 and July 26—267.
Of the 267 deaths reported on Sunday, Mumbai accounted for 57 deaths, taking the total number of deaths in the country’s commercial capital from 6,036 to 6,093 and the infected cases increased by 1,101 to touch 1,09,161 now.
Apart from 57 deaths in Mumbai, there were 55 deaths fatalities in Pune, 48 in Thane, 19 in Raigad, 15 in Jalgaon, 12 in Satara, 9 in Aurangabad, 8 in Solapur, 6 in Palghar, 5 each in Nashik and Akola, 3 each in Kolhapur, Latur, Sangli, Yavatmal and Buldhana, 2 each in Dhule and Nagpur and one death each in Nandurbar, Jalna, Hingoli, Parbhani, Osmanabad, Amravati, Washim and Wardha. In addition, one more person from another state died in the state.
With 86,358 infected cases and 2346 deaths, Thane continued to be the second worst hit district in Maharashtra.
Pune, which has emerged as the third worst affected district in terms of spread of the pandemic, has recorded 76,203 infections and 1,714 deaths till now.
In a related development, the total number of patients discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year touched 2,13,238.
The recovery rate in the State stood at 56.74 per cent. The mortality rate in the State is 3.63 per cent. The State health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the State at 1,48,601.
Out of 18,86,296 samples sent to laboratories, 3,37,799 have tested positive (19.92 per cent) for Covid-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 9,08,420 people are in home quarantine while 44,276 people are in institutional quarantine.