Amid the continued flattening of the Covid-19 curve, Maharashtra on Thursday witnessed an upward fluctuation in deaths and a dip in the number of infections in various parts of the State.
A day after the state logged 91 deaths and 6,738 infections, the daily death tally went up to 156, while the infected cases dropped to 5,902. With 156 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Maharashtra rose from 43,554 to 43,710. Similarly with 5902 fresh infections, the total infected cases jumped from 16,60,766 to 16,66,668.
As 7,883 more 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 14,94,809. The recovery rate in the state rose from 89.53 to 89.69 per cent.
Of the 156 deaths reported on Thursday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 33 deaths, while there were 27 deaths in Pune, 19 in Thane, 11 in Solapur and 10 in Nagpur.
In the lower range, there eight deaths in Nanded, 7 each in Satara and Sangli, 4 each in Ahmednagar, Ratnagiri, Jalna and Chandrapur, 3 each in Nashik and Akola, 2 each in Palghar, Raigad, Aurangabad, Beed, Washim and Bhandara and one each in Parbhani, Latur, Osmanabad, Amravati, Buldhana and Gadchiroli As many as 11 districts reported zero deaths. With 34 fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai toll shot up from 10196 to 10229, while the infected cases rose by 1120 to trigger a jump in the infections from 2,54,240 to 2,55,360.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate in the state stood at 2.62 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,29,746 to 1,27,603. Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from to 3,31,592 to 3,32,354 while the total number of deaths in Pune increased from 6636 to 6657.
Thane district remained in the third spot --after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,21,082 to 2,21,770 while the pandemic toll climbed from 5297 to 5,316.
Out of 88,37,133 samples sent to laboratories, 16,66,668 have tested positive (18.86 per cent) for COVID-19 until Thursday.
Currently, 25,33,687 people are in home quarantine while 12,690 people are in institutional quarantine.