In a big relief to the state health authorities, Maharashtra on Wednesday did not record any Covid-19 death for the first time in two years, even as the daily Covid-19 infections in Maharashtra came down to 544 and the daily cases in Mumbai rose marginally from 77 to 100.
A day after the state recorded 675, infections, the daily cases dropped to 544. With fresh infections recorded on Wednesday, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state rose from 78,66,380 to 78,66,924.
In a big relief to the state health authorities, there was no Covid-19 death in the state. As a result, the total number of deaths registered in the state since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the state in March 2020 stood static at 1,43,706.
With the fresh 100 cases, the total number of cases in Mumbai mounted from 10,56,549 to 10,56,649.
While the recovery rate stood static at 98 per cent, the overall growth rate of Covid-19 cases in the metropolis for a period from February 23 and March 1 stood static at 0.01 per cent.
As 1,007 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 77,12,568 to 77,13,575.
The recovery rate in the state rose from 98.04 per cent to 98.05 per cent. The number of “active cases” in the state dropped from 6,106 to 5,643. The fatality rate in the state stood static at 1.82 per cent. The active cases in Pune dropped from 2177 to 2051. The active cases in Mumbai dropped 757 to 689, while the number of active cases in the neighbouring Thane dropped from 481 to 445.
The active cases in Ahmednagar dropped from 626 to 564, while the number of active cases in Nagpur came down from 261 to 244.
Of the 7,80,03,848 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 78,66,924 have tested positive (10.09 per cent) for COVID-19 until Wednesday.
Currently, 45,422 people are in home quarantine while 660 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, 38 fresh Omicron cases were recorded in Maharashtra on Friday, taking the total number of the new Covid-19 variant to 4,771. Of these cases, 4,269 patients have been discharged after they tested negative in the RT-PCR tests.
Till Friday evening, 9,382 samples had been sent for genome sequencing, out of which, results of 8,480 patients have been received, while the results of 902 samples are awaited.