In a drop in the number of daily infections, Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 46,393 Covid-19 cases as against 48,270 cases on Friday, even as the pandemic infections went down further to 3,568 cases as against 5,008 and 5,708 registered respectively on Friday and Thursday.
Maharashtra recorded as many as 416 Omicron cases on Saturday, taking the total number of the new Covid-19 variant cases in the state to 2,759. Of the cases recorded on Friday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum 321 cases, followed by Nagpur (62), Pune Municipal Corporation (13), Wardha (12) and Amravati (6). Bhandara and Nashik recorded one Omicron case each.
A day after Maharashtra recorded 48,270 cases, the number of daily infections in the state dropped by 1,877 cases to touch a daily tally of 46,393 cases. With fresh infections, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state went up from 73,71,757 cases to 74,66,420.
The Covid-19 claimed 48 lives in the state on Friday, as against 52 deaths recorded on Friday. With the latest deaths, the total number of deaths recorded in the state went up from 1,42,023 to 1,42,071.
Mumbai, where the Covid-190 situation has been improving for the past one week, witnessed a further drop in the fresh Covid-19 cases from 5,008 cases recorded on Friday. With the fresh recorded on Friday, the total Covid-19 cases rose from 10,28,715 cases to 10,32.283.
As 30,795 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 70,09,823 cases to 70,40,618. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 94.47 per cent to 94.30 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state increased from 2,79,930 cases. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.91 per cent to 1.91 per cent.
In a disturbing development, the active cases in Pune shot up further to 83,507 cases against 78,846 cases recorded on Thursday.