In a shocking development, the daily Covid-19 infections touched a staggering tally of 40,925 cases in Maharashtra on Friday, even as no fresh cases of Omicron were registered in the State during the day.
A day after the State recorded 36,265 new cases, as many as 40,925 people tested positive for the Covid-19 on Friday, taking the total number of cases from 67,93297 to 68,34,222. As many as 20 Covid-19 deaths were deaths were reported from various parts of the state.
Of the 40,925 fresh cases recorded in the state, Mumbai accounted for 20,971 Covid-19 cases on Friday. With the daily cases having risen from 20,181 on Thursday to 20,971 cases on Friday, the total number of cases in the metropolis rose from 8,53,809 to 8,74,780.
As Mumbai has shown substantial increase in the number of daily Covid-19 cases recorded past one week, the Island locality of Mahim recorded a maximum of 370 cases, taking the total number of cases recorded in this locality to 12,452., Dadar recorded as many as 250 new cases which took the total number of cases to 11,799. Mumbai’s Dharavi locality, which is largest slum slum in Asia, recorded 150 new cases, taking the total number of cases in this area to 770.As 14,256 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 last year increased from 65,33,154 to 65,47,410. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 96.17 per cent to 95.8 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state increased from 1,14,847 cases to 1,41,492 cases. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 2.08 to 2.07 per cent.
Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 91,731 active cases, while there were 22,510 active cases in Thane. There were 11,675 active cases in Pune, followed by Raigad (3553), Palghar (3473), Nashik (1867), Nagpur (1484), Ahmednagar (660) and Satara (614).
Of the 7,01.45,329 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 68,34,222 have tested positive (9.74 per cent) for COVID-19 until Friday.Currently, 7,42,684 people are in home quarantine while 1,463 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, no new Omicron case was recorded in the state. As a result, the total number of Omicron cases recorded stood static at4 876.