Covid-19: More than 22,000 infections in Maharashtra for 5th straight day

MUMBAI: The state added 22,543 Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the fifth consecutive day of recording a 22,000-plus figure. The overall tally rose to 10,60,308. There were 416 deaths counted, the third highest for any day. The toll rose to 29,531.
In terms of cases, the state may soon cross Russia, which with 10.62 lakh cases is the fourth most-affected country in the world.

The city added 2,085 cases in 24 hours, taking the overall caseload to 1,69,741. The active caseload in the city crossed 30,000 to touch 30,316. The last time the city had such a high volume of active cases was in early July.
On July 1, the active caseload was 29,715 in the city. While the share of the city in active cases in the state was 38% then, it is 11% now. Pune district recorded the highest number of active cases at 77,624, followed by the city. Next was Thane at 29,531.

The big surge in active cases pulled down the state recovery rate to below 70% once again, leading the state towards 3 lakh active cases.
In the daily count, Pune circle was at the top with 6,029 and the city stood at 5,357 cases. CM Uddhav Thackeray expressed his concern over the surge and appealed to people to take more precautions and follow the social distance norms strictly. He appealed to people to take responsibility for their families and said the state-wide campaign ‘My family, my responsibility’ would be launched from Tuesday for a month.
BMC officials said 70% of the cases were from high-rises. “In the northern suburbs of Kandivli, Borivli and Dahisar, almost 85% of the cases are from high-rises,” additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said.
In a review done on Sunday at least one positive case was found in each of 522 buildings in Kandivli. After a dip, the city for the third day crossed the 40 mark with 41 deaths, taking the toll to 8,150.
The state health department said that of the 416 deaths, 261 occurred in 48 hours and 121 were from last week. The remaining 34 were older than a week. Of the 34 deaths, six occurred in Ahmednagar, five in Nagpur, four each in Amaravati and Thane, three in Sangli, two each in Pune, Akola and in Solapur, and one each in Buldhana, Hingoli, Kolhapur, Washim, Palghar and Aurangabad.
The highest death count in a day was 448 on Thursday, the second highest was 423 last Monday.
In Navi Mumbai, 90 inmates of an ashram for the destitute tested positive. Three ward officers and several other municipal officers were down with Covid-19.
Hospitals in the state discharged 11,549 patients, taking the total to 7,40,061. The recovery rate dipped to 69.8% from 72.6% on September 3.
( Inputs by Vijay Singh)