Maharashtra: COVID-19 cases top 7 lakh; 12,300 patients recover in last 24 hrs

With 10,425 people testing positive for Coronavirus in last 24 hours, Maharashtra's tally of confirmed cases rose to 703823 on Tuesday, state health department said.

number of recovered patients rose by whopping 12,300 in same period, taking aggregate of recovered cases to 5,14,790. Recovery Rate in state w stands at 73.14%, close to national aver of 75.92%.

state's Coronavirus death toll reached 22,794 on Tuesday after 329 patients succumbed to highly infectious respiratory disease. After updating figures, state health department ted that out of those 329 deaths reported today, 241 are from last 48 hours and 44 are from last week. Rest 44 deaths are from period before last week. Out of se 44 deaths, 10 occurred in Aurangab, 10 in Thane, 8 in Ahmednagar, 6 in Kolhapur, 3 in Nashik, 3 in Pune, 2 in Nagpur, 1 in Latur and 1 in Satara. Maharashtra's case fatality rate (CFR) w stands at 3.24%, as against India's 1.84%.

As of August 25, re are 1,65,921 active cases in Maharashtra, highest of any or State in country.

Currently, 12,53,273 people are under home quarantine and 33,668 people in institutional quarantine. Furrmore, out of 37,24,911 laboratory samples, 7,03,823 have been tested positive (18.89%) for COVID-19 until August 25.

With ever-increasing infections, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday appealed to people to remain extra careful during festivals and rains in view of COVID-19 pandemic. " state government has alrey relaxed many lockdown restrictions. We have also developed an equate healthcare infrastructure in state. However, we need to be more cautious to stop spre of coronavirus during festivals and rain," he said.

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Situation in key districts

In state capital Mumbai, 587 people were diagsed with COVID-19 on Tuesday, taking aggregate to 1,37,683. As per state health bulletin, India's financial capital has 17,938 active cases while 7,477 patients have died. For over a month w, Mumbai has reported less than 2,000 cases a day while number of tests has remained fairly progressive, a sign that outbreak is easing.

Meanwhile, total number of cases in neighbouring Thane district touched 1,24,261, of which it has 18,921 active cases.  tally of active cases in Palghar meanwhile stands at 6,514 while it is 9,059 in Nagpur. Cases in Pune district have surged to 1,55,039, of which re are 42,177 active cases.

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