Maharashtra, which is the worst coronavirus-affected State in the country, registered a record 778 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday taking the total number of infected cases to 6427, even as the pandemic claimed 14 more lives pushing up the total tally in the State to 283.
On a day when 14 more people died of coronavirus in the state, Mumbai accounted for six deaths, while there were five deaths in Pune and one death each in Navi Mumbai, Nandurbar and Dhule.
Of those dead, eight were men while six were women. Two of them aged over 60 years, nine were from the age group 40 to 59 years and three were under 40 years of age.
The Information relating to comorbidities of the two of the dead was available till the evening. “Seven out of the rest 12 patients (58 per cent) had high-risk comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma and heart disease,” the state bulletin said. With six fresh deaths, the total number of deaths in Mumbai mounted to 167. In Pune, there have so far been 59 deaths and 812 infected cases.
On the testing results in the state, the Health bulletin said: “Out of 96,369 laboratory samples, 89,561 were negative and 6427 have tested positive for coronavirus until today”.
The state health authorities are implementing cluster containment action plan is being implemented in places where clusters of patients have been found in the state.
“There are 477 active containment zones in the state currently. Total 7491 surveillance squads worked today across the state and surveillance of 27.26 lakh population was done,” the bulletin said.
Meanwhile, 840 patients have been discharged till date after full recovery. “Currently, 1,14,398 people are in home quarantine and 8,702 people are in institutional quarantine,” the bulletin said. After lockdown was declared for Covid 19 prevention and control, many workers in Maharashtra and from other states working in the informal sector were stranded at some places in the State.