5,399 new COVID-19 cases in Mumbai, 39,544 in Maharashtra

Maharashtra on Wednesday reported as many as 39544 new coronavirus cases its secondhighest singleday rise in infection tally since the pandemic began a health official saidState capital Mumbai reported 5399 new COVID19 cases which pushed its total to 414773 It also reported 15 deaths due to which its fatality count grew to 11690With this the states cumulative caseload mounted to 2812980Just three days back on March 28 the state had recorded 40414 new COVID19 cases the biggest surge in cases in a day so farOn March 22 the state had crossed the 25lakh case mark while it went past the 27 lakhmark on March 28On Wednesday Maharashtra reported the deaths of 227 patients This oneday fatality count is the highest for the state since October last year which pushed the death toll to 54649Out of these 227 deaths 129 had occurred in last 48 hours and 61 in the last week Rest 37 patients had died prior to last week he saidA total of 23600 patients got discharge from hospitals during the day which took the recovery count to 24 lakhSo far 2400727 people have recovered from the infection The number of the active cases in the state is 356243A total of 1729816 people are in home quarantine while 17863 others are in institutional quarantineNeighbouring Thane city reported 1039 new cases while Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation added 913 new cases the official saidPune city and neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad reported 4520 and 2214 new cases respectively Rest of the Pune district reported 1837 cases that indicated a surge in its rural partsWith this there are 277218 COVID19 cases in areas located within the Pune Municipal Corporation PMC limits 135674 in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation PCMC limits and 123370 in remaining Pune district he saidNashik city recorded 2941 cases which took its caseload to 117009 Other parts of Nashik district reported 1451 cases which increased its total to 54991Ahmednagar district reported 1180 cases while Jalgaon districts caseload increased by 947 casesIn the Marathwada region Aurangabad city reported 732 new cases while 830 cases were found in Nanded cityNagpur city in Vidarbha region reported 31 deaths during the day highest for the day in the state It took its death toll to 2963As many as 167078 coronavirus tests were carried out on Wednesday which took the overall test count to 19792143Maharashtras COVID19 figures are as follows Positive cases 2812980 new cases 39544 death toll 54649 discharged 2400727 active cases 356243 people tested so far 19792143This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever