Maharashtra: Active COVID-19 cases in the state touch 3 lakh, death toll past 31,000

With 24,619 new cases in last 24 hours, Maharashtra's tally of confirmed Coronavirus cases touched 11,45,840 on Thursday, a day after crossing 11 lakh mark.

Meanwhile, number of recovered patients rose by a whopping 19,522, taking tally of recovered cases to 8,12,354. recovery rate in state has dipped to 70.90%, as against national aver of 78.64%.

state's COVID-19 death toll reached 31,351 after 398 patients succumbed to highly infectious respiratory disease.  case fatality rate stands at 2.74%, while that of India's is 1.62%. 

Out of 468 deaths reported, 286 are from last 48 hours and 77 are from last week. Rest 105 deaths are from period before last week. Out of se 105 deaths, 36 occurred in Pune Municipal Corporation, 30 in Pune, 13 in Pimpri Chinchwad, 4 in Aurangabad, 4 in Kolhapur, 3 in Ahmednagar, 3 in Nanded, 2 in Raigad, 2 in Sangli, 2 in Thane, 1 in Amravati, 1 in Jalgaon, 1 in Jalna, 1 in Nashik, 1 in Satara and 1 in Wardha.

As of September 17, re are 3,01,752 active cases in Maharashtra, highest of any or State in country.

Currently, 17,70,748 people are under home quarantine and 36,827 people in institutional quarantine. Out of 56,04,890 laboratory samples, 11,45,840 have been tested positive (20.44%) for COVID-19 till date.

Amid surge in infections, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has anunced 'My family-My Responsibility' campaign with an aim to motivate maximum number of people to adopt a new lifestyle for effective COVID control.

Thackeray said  crisis is likely to become more severe in coming days as state continues to be worst-affected due to viral disease with more than one million COVID-19 cases. He also urged people to follow all social distancing rms to control virus spread.

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Situation in key districts

India's auto and educational hub, Pune, has reported highest number of active Coronavirus cases of 81,540. So far, 5,059 people have died while 1,62,914 have recovered in district. In total, district has reported 2,49,513 cases.

Fears have risen over fresh infection spurt in Maharashtra's densely populated urban clusters like Mumbai and Thane, having reported 1,78,385 (+2411) and 1,64,957 (+2203) respectively. Among or urban districts, Palghar has 32,555 cases while Nagpur has 58,003.

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