Maharashtra records 12,557 new Covid-19 cases

Mumbai: The Covid-19 infections in Maharashtra dropped to a low 12,557 on Sunday, even as the State – with 618 new fatalities – breached the grim milestone of total 1 lakh deaths.

A day after the State logged 13,659 infections and 741 deaths, the daily infections went down by 1102 and the deaths dropped by 123. Of the 618 deaths reported on Sunday, 233 were current ones while the remaining 385 were previous unaccounted fatalities.

With 618 deaths reported in Maharashtra on Sunday, the total number of deaths in the state breached the one lakh mark of total deaths as the fatalities rose from 99512 to 1,00,130. Similarly, with 12,557 new infections, the total number of cases climbed from 58,19,224 to 58,31,781.

As 14,433 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 55,28,834 to 55,43,267. The recovery rate in the state rose from 95.01 per cent to 95.05 per cent.

The total



“active cases” in the state dropped 1,88,027 to 1,85,527. The fatality rate in the State rose from 1.71 per cent to 1.72 per cent. Mumbai logged 20 deaths and 786 infections. As a consequence, the Covid-19 toll in the metropolis increased from 14,951 to 14,971, while the infected cases went up by 786 to trigger a jump in the infections from 7,09,857 to 7,10,643.

Pune with 21,216 cases continued to be remain first in terms of maximum number of “active cases” in the state, while Kolhapur with 18,734  “active cases” stood second, followed by Mumbai (18,041), Thane (16,672), Satara (15,151), Sangli (10,349), Nagpur (9244), Ahmednagar (7278), Ratnagiri (6109), Nashik (5981), Solapur (5878),  Sindhudurg (5870),  Beed (4277), and Raigad (4932).

Of the 3,65,08,967 samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 58,31,781 have tested positive (15.97 per cent) for COVID-19 until Sunday.

Currently, 13,46,389 people are in home quarantine while 6426 people are in institutional quarantine.