6,107 more people tested positive for Covid-19 Maharashtra In the last 24 hours – a drop of 329 cases from a day earlier – the state health department said on Tuesday.
The bulletin said 2,136 new cases were reported in Pune administrative region, followed by Nashik (1,048), Nagpur (1,033), Mumbai (868), Akola (360) Aurangabad (250), Kolhapur (229) and Latur region. (183) are. , Each administrative region consists of several districts.
On Monday, 6,436 new cases were reported in the state and 24 people died.
Apart from this, 57 more people lost their lives due to this disease. Of these, Pune region reported 35, followed by Mumbai region nine, Nagpur and Nashik regions four each, Latur three, Kolhapur and Aurangabad regions one each.
With the additions, the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra rose to 78,16,243, while the death toll rose to 1,43,155, the department said. The death rate due to corona virus in the state is 1.83%, while the recovery rate is 96.89%.
According to a bulletin, the number of cured cases in Maharashtra rose to 75,73,069 after 16,035 patients were discharged during the day, taking the state to 96,069 active cases.
At present, 6,39,490 people are in home isolation in the state and another 2,412 are in institutional quarantine.
According to the department, so far a total of 3,334 patients infected with the highly contagious Omicron type have been reported in the state. Of these, 2,023 patients have been discharged after a negative RT-PCR test.
With 1,13,622 coronavirus tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the number of swab samples tested so far in Maharashtra rose to 7,57,68,634. The state’s daily positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, is 5.4%.
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