Maharashtra reports 4,408 Covid-19 cases, 116 deaths

MUMBAI: Maharashtra reported 4,408 new coronavirus cases and 116 fresh fatalities on Tuesday, while 5,424 patients recovered from the infection, a state health department official.
With this, the tally of Covid-19 cases in the state climbed to 64,01,213, while the death toll rose to 1,35,255, he said. Significantly, Nandurbar district in North Maharashtra did not report a single active case of coronavirus for the second day in a row.
The official said 5,424 patients were discharged from hospitals across the state in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative number of recovered cases to 62,01,168. Maharashtra now has 61,306 active cases. The state has 3,53,807 people in home quarantine and another 2,233 in institutional quarantine, according to the official.
Maharashtra's Covid-19 recovery rate stands at 96.87 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.11 per cent, he said. The cumulative number of coronavirus tests in the state climbed to 5,12,91,383, of which 1,79,488 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, the official said.
Notably, Dhule, Nandurbar, Akola, Yavatmal, Wardha and Gondia districts along with Dhule, Jalgaon, Bhiwandi Nizampur, Parbhani, Amaravati and Chandrapur municipal corporations did not report any new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, according to the official. He said Satara district reported the highest new infections at 810, followed by Solapur at 529.
Satara district also topped the list of coronavirus-linked fatalities with 30 deaths in the last 24 hours. Among the eight regions of Maharashtra, the Pune region reported the highest new cases at 2,050 followed by 982 infections from the Kolhapur region. Among the other regions, Nashik reported 613 new cases, Mumbai 465, Latur 210, Aurangabad 32, Akola 19 and the Nagpur region nine, he said.
According to the official, among the 116 fatalities, the highest at 52 were reported from the Pune region followed by 51 deaths from the Kolhapur region. Significantly, Akola, Aurangabad and Nagpur regions did not report any fresh fatality, while the Nashik region reported five fatalities, and Mumbai and Latur regions four Covid-19 deaths each, he said.
The official said Mumbai witnessed 196 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths, while Pune city reported 193 new infections, but no fresh fatalities. Among the 61,306 patients currently under treatment, Pune district has the highest at 14,325, according to him.
He said among the 62,01,168 recovered patients across the state, the highest - 10,71,986 - were are from Pune district.
Coronavirus figures for Maharashtra are as follows: Total cases 64,01,213; new cases 4,408; total deaths 1,35,255; recoveries 62,01,168; active cases 61,306; total tests 5,12,91,383.