Mumbai: The Covid the death toll in Maharashtra rose to a new high on Friday with 773 people succumbing to the virus, while the state’s case load exceeded the 41 lakh mark, although the active case was a marginal decline, health officials said.
The one-day death toll in the state increased a new high of 773 – compared to the previous high of 568 on April 21/22 – which took its total death toll to 63,252, the worst in the country.
The state dropped slightly from the record high of 68,631 new cases on a day recorded on April 18th. The state reported 66,836 new cases on Friday, taking the total score to 41.61,676. The situation in Mumbai improved marginally with a decrease in new infections, from 7,367 on Thursday to 7,199 on Friday, as the city’s overall score soared to 616,279, 19 days after the highest daily rise of 11,206 cases on April 4. affected.
With the addition of 72 deaths Friday, the city’s total death toll rose to 12,655, the highest for a single city in the country. Clearly, 74,045 fully healed persons, the highest so far, returned home on Friday, taking the state’s total recovery to 34,044,792, while the recovery rate from Thursday improved 81.34 percent to 81, 81 percent now.
The death toll has dropped again from 1.53 percent a day earlier to 1.52 percent now, while the number of active cases in the state has declined for the first time this month, from 699,8558 to 691,851.
The Mumbai Circle, consisting of the districts of Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad, recorded a decline in new cases from 17 1955 on Thursday to 16 968, taking its total score to 12.86 497, while 180 deaths Friday his death toll stands at 22,364.
Of the total 773 deaths in the day, Mumbai led the death toll with 72 deaths, followed by 70 in Yavatmal, 58 in Nagpur, 57 in Solapur, 56 in Thane, 52 in Nanded, 41 in Nashik, 37 in Satara, 36 in Raigad, 31 each in Ahmednagar, 30 each in Pune and Latur, 20 each in Osmanabad and Gondia, 17 each in Wardha, 16 each in Palghar and Beed, 14 each in Sindhudurg, 13 in Jalgaon, 11 each in Sangli, Ratnagiri and Bhandara, and 10 in Akola – on the higher range.
Amravati and Gadchiroli each reported 8 deaths, followed by 7 in Nandurbar, 6 in Aurangabad, 5 in Parbhani, 4 in Chandrapur, 3 in Washim, 1 each in Dhule, Buldhana, except for 1 outsider – in the bottom series.
Meanwhile, the number of people sent home isolation increased – from 39,71,917 to 41,88,266 now – while those moving to institutional quarantine rose from 29,014 to 29,378 on Friday.
Source: Telangana Today