Maharashtra records highest single-day spike of 10,576 COVID-19 cases, tally mounts to 3,37,607

Maharashtra reported the highest single-day spike of 10,576 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, which pushed its overall tally to 3,37,607, the state health department said. The state's death toll due to the virus went up by 280 and reached 12,556, it said. 

A total of 5,552 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, taking the number



of recovered poeple in the state to 1,87,769, the department said in its statement. There are 1,37,282 active cases in the state at present. So far, 16,87,213 people have been tested for COVID-19  across Maharashtra, it said.

The death toll included 58 from Mumbai city. With this, the total cases in MMR is now 2,09,978 and deaths 8,519, it said.