Maharashtra records 21,656 new COVID-19 cases; more than 20,000 patients recover

With 21,656 new cases in last 24 hours, Maharashtra's tally of confirmed Coronavirus cases touched 11,67,496 on Friday, state health department data revealed.

Meanwhile, number of recovered patients rose by a whopping 22,078, taking tally of recovered cases to 8,34,432. recovery rate in state has dipped to 71.47%, as against national aver of 78.86%.

With 405 deaths reported Friday and 35 old deaths added due to portal updation, a total of 440 deaths have been included in  report.  state's COVID-19 death toll has w reached 31,791.  case fatality rate stands at 2.72%, while that of India's is 1.62%.

Out of 440 deaths reported, 244 are from last 48 hours and 103 are from last week. Rest 93 deaths are from period before last week. Out of se 93 deaths, 40 occurred in Pune Municipal Corporation, 11 in Nagpur, 9 in Ahmednagar, 7 in Aurangabad, 7 in Satara, 3 in Pune rural, 3 in Kolhapur, 3 in Sangli, 2 in Jalgaon, 2 in Nanded, 1 in Buldhana, 1 in Thane, 1 in Latur, 1 in Palghar, 1 in Solapur and 1 in Yavatmal.

As of September 18, re are 3,00,887 active cases in Maharashtra, highest of any or State in country.

Currently, 17,78,792 people are under home quarantine and 36,767 people in institutional quarantine. Out of 56,93,345 laboratory samples, 11,67,496 have been tested positive (20.51%) for COVID-19 till date.

Two Maharashtra ministers — Nitin Raut and Hasan Mushrif — on Friday said y have tested coronavirus positive. With this, number of ministers in Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, who tested positive for infection has reached 11 so far.

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 79,691. So far, 5,133 people have died while 1,68,730 have recovered in district. In total, district has reported 2,53,554 cases.

Fears have risen over fresh infection spurt in Maharashtra's densely populated urban clusters like Mumbai and Thane, having reported 1,80,668 (+2283) and 1,66,982 (+2025) respectively. Among or urban districts, Palghar has 33,005 cases while Nagpur has 60,109.

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