With no let up in the spread of pandemic cases, Maharashtra recorded 41,434 Covid-19 cases on Saturday, even as it registered as many as 144 Omicron cases in various parts of the State.
A day after the daily Covid-19 infections touched a staggering tally of 40,925 cases, the daily cases went up to 41,434, taking the total number of cases from 68,34,222 to 68,75,656. As many as 13 Covid-19 deaths were reported from various parts of the state.
Of the 41, 434 fresh cases recorded in the state, Mumbai accounted for 20,318 Covid-19 cases on Saturday. With the daily cases having dropped marginally from 20,971 on Friday to 20,318 cases on Saturday, the total number of cases in the metropolis rose from 8,74,780 to 8,95,098.
As 9,671 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 65,47,410 to 65,57,081. The recovery rate in the state dropped from 95.8 percent to 95.37 per cent.
The number of “active cases” in the state increased from 1,41,492 to 1,73,238 cases. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 2.07 per cent to 2.05 per cent.
Of the total recorded cases, Mumbai accounts for a maximum of 1,06037 active cases, while there are 30,039 active cases in Thane. There are 15,376 active cases in Pune, followed by Raigad (5128), Palghar (5077), Nashik (2566), Nagpur (2050), Ahmednagar (851) and Satara (835).
Of the 7,03, 42,173 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 68,75,656 have tested positive (9.77 per cent) for COVID-19 until SaturdayCurrently, 8,45,089 people are in home quarantine while 1,851 people are in institutional quarantine.
Meanwhile, the State recorded 133 cases of Omicron, taking the total number of new Covid-19 variant cases to 1009 cases. Of the cases, 130 cases have been reported by the Institute of Social Science Education and Research, while three cases have been reported from Gujarat.
The following is the break-up of a total 1009 Omicron cases recorded in the state so far, Mumbai: 566, PMC-201, Pimpri-Chinchwad—53 Thane –36, Pune rural --32, Nagpur –30, Panvel –17, Navi Mumbai,Kolhapur –10 each, Satara-8, Kalyan Dombivli —7 each, Osmanabad and Vasai-Virar- 5 each, Nanded, Amravati, Ulhasnagar —3 each, Aurangabad, Buldhana, Mira-Bhayandar Sangli, Sangli, ahmednagar --2 each, Latur, Akola and Raigad—1 each.