Maharashtra on September 23 reported 3,320 COVID-19 cases and 61 deaths, which took its infection tally to 65,34,557 and toll to 1,38,725, a health department official said. With 4,050 patients getting discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, the recovery count rose to 63,53,079.
Maharashtra now has 39,191 active cases. The state has 2,61,842 people in home quarantine and another 1,461 in institutional quarantine, the official said.
The state's COVID-19 recovery rate now stands at 97.22 percent, while the fatality rate is 2.12 percent. The cumulative number of coronavirus tests conducted in the state climbed to 5,76,46,515 as 1,70,373 samples were examined in the last 24 hours, he said.
As many as eight districts – Dhule, Bhandara, Hingoli, Gondia, Nanded, Akola, Amravati, and Chandrapur – did not report any new COVID-19 infection. Similarly, Jalgaon, Parbhani, and Chandrapur municipal corporations (urban areas) also did not record any new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. Ahmednagar district reported the highest number of 577 new infections, followed by Mumbai city at 498. Satara district logged the highest fatalities in the state at 13.
Out of the eight regions in the state, the Pune region reported the highest number of new cases at 1,159, followed by 1,050 in the Mumbai region. The Nashik region reported 700 new cases, Kolhapur 251, Latur 104, Aurangabad 27, Nagpur 17, and Akola 12.
According to the health official, among the 61 fresh fatalities, as many as 28 were reported from the Pune region, followed by 11 from Nashik, and nine from the Kolhapur region. Mumbai and Latur regions logged six deaths each, followed by one fatality in the Nagpur region. However, Aurangabad and Akola regions did not report any death due to the virus in the last 24 hours.
Mumbai city added 498 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths, while Pune city reported 182 cases, but no fresh fatalities. Of the 39,191 active patients in the state, Pune district has the highest at 9,807, the official said.
Out of the 63,53,079 recoveries reported in the state so far, the highest – 11,08,460 – were also from Pune district, he added.
Maharashtra's coronavirus figures are as follows:
Total cases 65,34,557,
new cases 3,320,
death toll 1,38,725,
recoveries 63,53,079,
active cases-39,191,
total tests 5,76,46,515.
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