The Covid-19 deaths dropped to 1,236 in Maharashtra on Wednesday, even as the State logged 10,107 infections and recorded recoveries by 10,567 patients.
A day after the daily pandemic deaths – inflated by 1,070 “old” and unaccounted fatalities – jumped to 1,458 in the state, the fatalities went down to 1,236. The daily deaths comprised 237 new deaths and 999 “old” deaths.
The infections went up by 577 — from 9,350 on Tuesday and 10107 on Wednesday. With 1,458 deaths reported on Wednesday, the Covid-19 toll in the State jumped from 1,14.154 to 1,15,390.
With 10,107 fresh infections, the total infections in the State rose from 59,24,773 to 59,34,880.
As 10,567 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 56,69,179 to 56,79,746. The recovery rate in the state rose 95.69 per cent to 95.7 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,38,361 to 1,36,661. The fatality rate in the state went up from 1.93 per cent to 1.94 per cent.
Pune with 17,820 cases continued to be remain first in the state in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Mumbai with 17,732 stood second, followed by Thane (14,170), Kolhapur (12,487), Sangli (10,900), Satara (7488), Ratnagiri (7385) Sindhudurg (5057), Nashik (4718) Nagpur (4674), Ahmednagar (4619) and Raigad (4067).
Of the 3,86,41,639 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 59,34,880 have tested positive (15.36 per cent) for Covid-19 until Wednesday.
Currently, 6,78,781 people are in home quarantine while 5401 people are in institutional quarantine.