State reports over 1,000 cases for 6th day in a row
Maharashtra recorded 1,230 Covid-19 cases on Monday, the sixth day in a row a four-digit increase in infections has been reported, taking the tally to 23,401. The state has crossed the 23,000 mark 11 days after it went past the 10,000 mark on April 30.
The death toll in the state reached 868 with 36 fatalities recorded on Monday. Of them, 20 are in Mumbai, five in Solapur, three in Pune, two in Thane and one each in Ratnagiri, Amravati, Nanded, Aurangabad and Wardha. One patient from Uttar Pradesh died in the city on Monday.
In Mumbai, the worst-hit city in the country, the case count crossed 14,000 as 782 cases were registered in a day, the secondhighest single-day figure so far. The city’s case count is now 14,521. On Sunday, 875 cases were recorded. The death toll of Mumbai is 528.
Between April 19 and 30, the state was getting around 500 new cases daily, but from May 1, the figures started showing a significant rise. In the past 11 days, the state has reported as many as 12,903 cases, whereas the total number of cases registered in April was 10,201.
The state reported 1,233 infections on May 6, 1,216 on May 7, 1,089 on May 8, 1,165 on May 9 and 1,278 on May 10. Besides, on May 10, the state also declared an additional 665 cases, saying that they were registered in the past few days and are being declared as per the Central government’s directive to bring the data at par with the national figures on the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) website.