Maharashtra logs 14,152 new Covid-19 cases

Mumbai: The Covid-19 infections dropped to 14,152 in Maharashtra on Friday, even as the daily deaths soared to an all time high of 1,377— a tally that included the 1,088 previous unaccounted deaths.

A day after Maharashtra logged 15,229 infections and 643 deaths, the daily infections came down to 14,152. However,  the daily deaths more than doubled to touch 1,377. The daily deaths comprised 289 current ones and 1088 previous unaccounted fatalities which were added to the state’s progressive tally.

Earlier on May 23, the deaths in the State had peaked to 1,320 — which comprised 398 deaths that occurred in the previous 48 hours, 196 that took place during the previous week and 726 old unaccounted deaths. Otherwise, the daily deaths in the state  have been ranging between 500 to 1000 during the recent weeks.

With 1,377 deaths reported in Maharashtra on Friday, the total number of deaths in the state climbed from 97,394 to 98,771. Similarly, with 14,152 new infections, the total number of cases climbed from 57,91,413 to 58,05,565.

As 20,852 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 54,86,206 to 55,07,058. 

The recovery rate in the state rose from 94.73 per cent to 94.86 per cent. The total “active cases” in the state dropped 2,04,974 to 1,96,894. The fatality rate in the state rose from 1.68 per cent to 1.70 per cent.

Mumbai logged 968 infections, while it logged 15 deaths. As a consequence, the Covid-19 toll in the metropolis increased from 14,907 to 14,922, while the infected cases went up by 968 to trigger a jump in the infections from 7,08,026 to 7,08,994.

Pune with 22,725 cases continued to be remain first in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Mumbai with 18,261  “active cases” stood second, followed by Kolhapur (18,177), Thane (16,930), Satara (16,734), Sangli (10,929), Nagpur (9303), Ahmednagar (8785), Solapur (6423),  Nashik (5918), Ratnagiri (5550), Sindhudurg (5375),  Beed (5283), and Raigad (5016).