Maharashtra notches record 1,233 Corona cases, Mumbai crosses 10K
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Mumbai: Maharashtra recorded a staggering 1,233 new Covid-19 cases and 34 deaths, with Mumbai crossing the 10,000 case mark, officials said here on Wednesday.
With 34 fatalities, the state death toll shot up from to 651 and the total number of Coronavirus patients increased to touch 16,758.
Of the total 34 deaths, 25 were recorded in Mumbai alone – taking the city toll to 412 and the number of Covid-19 positive patients in the city shot up by 769 to 10,714.
Dharavi alone recorded 68 new cases, taking the total in Asia’s biggest slum to 733 cases and 21 deaths.
Besides Mumbai’s 26 deaths, Pune recorded 3 fresh deaths as did Akola while one death each was recorded from Jalgaon and Solapur.
The dead comprised 21 men and 13 women, and nearly 79 percent of them suffered from other serious ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, heart problems and asthma.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (Thane Division) continued to cause major worries with 441 Covid-19 deaths and 12,716 patients.
Pune Division trails a distant second with 132 deaths and 2,351 patients.
The next area of concern is Nashik Division with 31 deaths and 632 positive cases, followed by Aurangabad Division with 12 deaths and 441 patients and finally, Akola Division with 20 deaths and 273 patients.
Besides, new cases were recorded in Nashik Division (61), Kolhapur Division (09), Aurangabad Division (36), Akola Division (31), and Nagpur Division (01).
On the positive side, 275 fully cured patients returned home, taking the number of those discharged to 3,094.
Meanwhile, the number of people in home quarantine increased to 211,112 and those in institutional quarantine increased from 12,456 to 13,107 while and the state’s containment zones increased from 943 to 1,048 today.
As many as 11,692 teams have carried out a survey of a population of around 51.1 lakhs in the state till date.
IANS
