Covid-19 recoveries cross 4 lakh, tests top 3 million in state
12,608 FRESH CASES Maha tally rises to 572,734; toll is 19,427
MUMBAI: Maharashtra recorded 12,608 Covid-19 cases, third highest single-day spike, as its tally rose to 572,734 on Friday, with the number of active cases at 151,555. The state’s toll went up to 19,427 with an addition of 364 fatalities. However, according to the state health department, of the 364 deaths, 277 were from the past 48 hours, 46 from the past week and 41 from the period before that.
Maharashtra also went past 3,000,000 tests, after 68,995 tests conducted on Friday took the tally up to 3,045,085.
The state, meanwhile, crossed the 400,000 recoveries milestone, after 10,484 patients recovered from Covid-19 on Friday. The number of recoveries in Maharashtra stood at 401,442, with August 9 recording the highest single-day recoveries at 13,348.
In the past fortnight (since August 1), the number of recoveries have been 145,284, marginally lower than new infections — 150,616.
The state crossed 400,000-mark of recoveries in nine days after it went past 300,000 recoveries on August 5. It took the state 11 days to go from 200,000 to 300,000 on July 25; 23 days from 100,000 to 200,000; and 116 days for the first lakh patients to recover.
The state’s recovery rate has improved and stand at 70.09% from 67.26% on August 8 and 55.67% on July 14. The national rate is 71.17%.
However, the number of fresh infections being recorded in the
state every day for the past week has remained high. In the past seven days, the state reported more than 12,000 cases on four days, with 12,822 infections on