Death toll crosses 18,000-mark 9181 new +ve cases reported

Within a week, the Covid19 death toll in Maharashtra has crossed 18,000-mark on Monday, with 293 new fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll to 18,050 until now. In the last six days, 2,000 people succumbed to the SARS-COV-2 virus, which means that on an average 318 fatalities were reported on a daily basis.

Meanwhile, the state has witnessed 25 per cent decrease in the daily corona cases, with 9,181 new cases being reported on Monday. Taking the total positive count to 5,24,413 until now. However, there was 50 per cent drop in the daily recovery of patients, with 6,711 having recovered in the last 24 hours.

Of the 293 deaths, 221 were in the last 48 hours, 57 higher from the last week, and 15 higher from the period before last week. Of the total deaths, 115 were from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, followed by 54 in Pune, 36 in Kolhapur, 22 in Nagpur, 21 in Latur, 20 in Nashik, 17 in Aurangabad and seven in Akola, while one death was from another state.

Meanwhile, the positivity rate on Friday reduced to 13 per cent from 15.45 per cent which was just a day before – as the state conducted 81,655 tests, the highest in the last 24 hours, since the first coronavirus case was reported in Maharashtra on March 9. The overall positivity rate of the state stands at 19.07 per cent, with 25,68,645 tests being conducted so far.

Mumbai, meanwhile, witnessed less than 1,000 cases, with 925 new cases and 46 deaths were reported on Monday. The total count has now increased to 1,24,322, with 6,842 deaths so far. Meanwhile,