Maharashtra’s COVID19
tally
nears 4.7 lakh mark
Over 10,000 new cases; 334 more deaths take toll to 16,476
Maharashtra reported a
massive surge of 10,309 new
COVID19 cases on Wednesday, taking the State’s total
case tally to 4,68,265. It also
recorded a high fatality
surge of 334 deaths, taking
the death toll to 16,476.
As opposed to the high
number of recoveries outweighing the case surge in
the last three days, only
6,165 patients were discharged today, taking the total recoveries to 3,05,521.
The number of active cases stood at 1,45,961 with a recovery rate of 65. 25%, said
State Health Department officials. “Till date, of
24,13,510 laboratory samples, 4,68,265 (19.40%) have
tested positive with nearly
61,000 samples being tested
across the State tested in the
last 24 hours,” said State Surveillance Officer
Dr. Pradeep
Awate, adding that case fatality rate stood at 3.52%.
Surge continues in Pune
Pune district reported
another big surge of over
2,000 new cases and a recordhigh fatality spike of 92
deaths as its case tally
reached 1,01,262, while the
death toll rose to 2,434. The
district administration, however, said there were less
than 27,000 active cases.
With 1,125 new cases reported today, Mumbai’s total
case tally reached has
1,19,240 of whom only
20,679 are active. With 42
new deaths, the city’s death
toll has risen to 6,591.
Kolhapur in western Maharashtra reported a high fatality surge of 12 deaths, taking its death toll to 177. The
district also reported a surge
of 400 fresh cases, taking its
tally to 7,087 of which 4,179
are active.
Fatalities and cases continued to mount in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
The KalyanDombivli civic
body saw a fatality spike of
23 deaths, taking the toll to
487. With 371 new cases, its
case tally rose to 24,068.
In another alarming fatality spike, 18 deaths were reported from the BhivandiNizampur civic body, taking its
toll to 270. The rise in deaths
was all the more worrying as
the civic body reported only
18 new cases, taking its total
case tally to 3,920. Thane
district reported 13 fatalities,
taking the total death toll to
1,114. It also saw a big spike of
513 new cases as the total
case tally crossed 36,000.
After Pune district, Nashik and Jalgaon — major hotbeds in north Maharashtra —
along with Ahmednagar, reported huge case surges.
Nashik’s record-high
Nashik recorded a recordhigh case surge of 705 new
ones as its total tally rose to
17,239 of whom 5,843 are active. With 10 new fatalities,
the district’s death toll has
reached 508.
Ahmednagar, too, reported a staggering surge of 674
new cases, as the district’s
case tally rose to 6,907 of
which 2,996 are active.
Three new deaths have took
the toll to 81.
Jalgaon reported 466
fresh cases, taking the tally
to 12,551, of which 3,394 cases are active. With four new
deaths, the district’s toll has
risen to 562.
Dr. Awate said 9,43,658
people across the State were
in home quarantine and
36,466 were in institu
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