503 people died of COVID in the state on Sunday, city reports 8,468 new cases
Civic workers screen travellers departing from the city at Dadar on Sunday. Pic/Ashish Raje
The state on Sunday saw the highest daily spike of 68,631 fresh COVID-19 cases, while 503 patients succumbed to the infection, the health department said. With this, the cumulative caseload in the state mounted to 38,39,338 while the death toll reached 60,473. The city, meanwhile, recorded 8,468 cases and 53 deaths.
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A passenger who arrived in the city on Sunday gets tested for COVID-19 at Dadar station. Pic/Ashish Raje
Maharashtra is now left with 6,70,388 active cases. Of the 503 fatalities, 210 deaths had occurred in the last 48 hours, the department said.
Mumbai’s total tally of infections touched 5,79,486 and the death toll to 12,354. According to the BMC, the city’s recovery rate stands at 82 per cent, the growth rate stands at 1.53 per cent and the doubling rate is 45 days. Meanwhile, 8,078 patients were discharged in the city after recovering. The city now has 86,688 active COVID patients.
A record 2,73,272 tests were conducted on Sunday, taking the number of samples tested so far to 2,38,54,185, the department said in a release.
A total of 45,654 people were discharged after treatment, taking the count of recoveries in Maharashtra so far to 31,06,828, it said. Maharashtra’s case recovery rate now stands at 80.92 per cent while the fatality rate is 1.58 per cent. Currently, 36,75,518 people are in home quarantine and 26,529 people are in institutional quarantine, the department said.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), including Mumbai city, registered 17,632 fresh cases and 115 fatalities, taking the count of infections to 12,04,018 and the toll to 21,689, it said.
Nashik division reported 9,599 new cases including 2,049 in Nashik city. Pune division reported 15,587 cases in the day, including 6,541 in Pune city. Kolhapur division reported 2,264 infections, Aurangabad division 3,418, Latur division 4,921, Akola division 2,727, Nagpur division 12,483, including 4,724 in Nagpur city, the department said.
38,39,338
Total No. of cases in Maharashtra
17,632
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
53
No. of deaths in city on Sunday (26 patients had co-morbidities, two people were below 40 years of age, 35 of them were above 60 years of age and 16 were between 40 to 60 years)
8,078
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Sunday
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