The Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra crossed 38,000-mark on Sunday, as 326 more people succumbed to Coronavirus, while a relatively low 13,702 people tested positive for the pandemic in various parts of the state.
A day after the daily fatality tally dropped to 278, the state witnessed an increase of 48 deaths to take the daily figure to 326 and trigger a jump in the number of total deaths in the state from 37,758 to 38084.
With 13,702 fresh infections, the total number of infected cases in the state rose from 14,30,861 to 14,43,409.
On a day when 15,048 people were discharged from various hospitals in the state, the number of people discharged from various hospitals after full recovery since the second week of March this year went up to 11,49,603. The recovery rate in the state rose from 79.3 to 79.64 per cent.
Of the total 326 deaths reported on Sunday, Mumbai and Satara accounted for a maximum of 48 deaths each, while there were 41 deaths in Pune, 33 in Thane, 26 in Nagpur, 11 in Sangli and 10 deaths in Beed.
In the lower range, there were eight each deaths in Raigad, Nashik, Kolhapur, Jalgaon and Gondia, seven each deaths in Ahmednagar and Jalgaon, six each deaths in Aurangabad, Solapur and Amaravati, five deaths in Yavatmal, four deaths each in Palghar, Ratnagiri, Jalna and Latur,, three deaths each in Sindhudurg, Parbhani and Nanded, two deaths each in Osmanabad, Bhandara and one death each in Hingoli and Akola. In addition, three from outside the state died in Maharashtra.
With 48 deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai went up from 9,060 to 9108, while the number of infected cases rose by 1192 taking the total number of infections from 212,462 to 213652.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate in the state stood at 2.64 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state dropped marginally from Saturday’s figure of 2,58,108 to 2+,55,281.
Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw nthe total number of cases to up to 3,03,138, while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 5931 to 5972.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – with 1,93,992 total cases, while the pandemic toll rose from 4973 to 5006.
Out of 71,11,204 samples sent to laboratories, 14,43,409 have tested positive (20.29 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.
Currently, 22,09,696 people are in home quarantine while 27,935 people are in institutional quarantine.