As part of the reconciliation of old fatalities and infections, a staggering 3,509 previous unaccounted deaths were added to the daily death tally of 147, which took the total number of deaths recorded in Maharashtra on Tuesday to 3,656.
Similarly, 2,479 positive cases were added to the daily infection of 6,910 which led the state recording 10,566 infections during the day.
On Tuesday, reconciliation of the positive cases and deaths was completed up to July 10 and 12 respectively. “Owing to up-dation of previous cases and deaths by the concerned districts, the positive case tally of the state has increased by 2479 while there is an increase of 3509 deaths in the state's cumulative tally,” a statement issued by the public health department said.
“During the up-dation of cases and deaths due to de-duplication and change as per residential address of cases, there is either addition or deletion of cases and deaths in some of the districts,” the statement added.