With hardly any let up in the continued spurt in the infections and fatalities in Maharashtra, as many as 802 died of Covid-19 and 63,282 more tested positive for the pandemic in various parts of the state on Saturday.
A day after the pandemic claimed 828 lives and left 62,919 infected in the state, Maharashtra logged 802 deaths and 63,282 new infections.
With 802 new deaths, the total number of deaths in the state climbed from 68813 to 69615. Similarly, with 63,282 infections, the total number of cases rose from 46,02,472 to 46,65,754.
As 61,326 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 went up to 39,30,302. The recovery rate in the state for the first time in several days rose from 84.06 per cent to 84.24 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state rose from 6,62,640 cases to 6,63,658 cases. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 1.50 per cent tpo 1.49 per cent. With fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai remained static at 13,215, while the infected cases went up by 3897 to trigger a jump in the infections from 6,48,471 to 6,52,368.
While Pune accounted for a maximum 1,04,849 “active cases” in the state, Nagpur stood second 76,291 followed by Mumbai with 63,325, Thane (49,981), Nashik (49,255), Chandrapur (27,409), Ahmednagar (21,754), Satara (18,858), Solapur (18,780), Latur (14,677), Aurangabad (13503), Jalgaon (12784), Beed (13296), Parbhani (11,912), Bhandara (11,127), Buldhana ( 10,031), Osmanabad (8965)Nanded (8577), Nandurbar (6936) and Gondia (8293).
Of the 2,73,95,288 samples sent to laboratories, 46,65,754 have tested positive (17.03 per cent) for COVID-19 until Saturday.Currently, 40,43,899 people are in home quarantine while 26,420 people are in institutional quarantine.