Maharashtra sees 31,643 new COVID-19 cases, 102 deaths

A day after reporting the highest oneday rise of 40414 coronavirus positive cases Maharashtra on Monday added 31643 fresh infections taking the overall tally to 2745518 the state health department said With 102 fatalities the death toll in the state went up to 54283The detection of fewer cases on Monday is attributed to reduced testing because of Holi holiday Maharashtra has been conducting more than 150 lakh tests every day on average for the detection of coronavirus positive casesOn Monday the state conducted 136848 tests against 165591 samples that were tested on Sunday Mumbai reported 5890 new COVID19 cases on Monday and 12 deaths taking the tally to 404614 and the toll to 11665 the department saidOf the 102 deaths 85 fatalities occurred in the last 48 hours whereas 14 patients had succumbed in the last week The rest three fatalities had taken place before the last week it said A total of 20854 patients were discharged during the day taking the count of recoveries in Maharashtra to 2353307 it saidThe state is now left with 336584 active cases Thane city neighbouring Mumbai reported 1010 fresh cases while 934 infections were added in the limits of the Kalyan Dombivali municipal corporation a Health official saidPune city and neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad township reported 2554 and 1481 new cases respectively taking the tally to 269429 in the Pune corporation area and to131675 in the Pimpri Chinchwad area Nashik city recorded 1892 new cases taking its caseload to 112345 A total of 825 infections were detected in Nashik district the department saidAhmednagar district neighbouring Nashik also reported 1892 fresh cases With 825 new cases found in the Ahmednagar district the overall tally rose to 59368 Ahmednagar municipal corporation reported 470 new cases taking the tally to 31994 as per the department In the Marathwada region Aurangabad city reported 803 new cases while 678 cases were detected in Nanded cityBeed and Osmanabad districts reported 398 and 323 new infections respectively which is indicative of a higher number of cases to be detected in these districts in the next two days the official said Buldana and Washim districts reported 435 and 426 new cases respectively during the dayThe local administration has already undertaken measures like imposition of a night curfew and clamping a weekend lockdown but the number of new cases continues to rise the official saidNagpur city and Nagpur district barring the city added 2281 and 962 new cases respectively in the dayWith 136848 new tests the number of samples tested for coronavirus in Maharashtra has gone up to 19495189 Maharashtras COVID19 figures are as follows Positive cases 2745518 new cases 31643 death toll 54283 discharged 2353307 active cases 336584 people tested so far 19495189This 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