Published 21:56 IST, June 25th 2020

Maharashtra: Record 4,841 COVID-19 cases in a single day as state vows to ramp up testing

Maharashtra's coronavirus outbreak continued to worsen as the state reported its highest single-day count of a whopping 4,841 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday

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Maharashtra's coronavirus outbreak continued to worsen as state reported its highest single-day count of a whopping 4,841 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, taking aggregate to 1,47,741.

death toll rose to 6,931 after 192 succumbed to illness, of which 109 died in last 48 hours, and rest 83 are deaths from previous period, state health department said.

number of recoveries jumped by 3,661 in last 24 hours to reach 77,453. As of June 25, re are 63,342 active cases in state.

In state capital Mumbai, 1,365 people were diagsed with COVID-19 on Thursday, taking aggregate to 70,990. Meanwhile, tally in neighbouring Thane touched 29,488, while that in Palghar stood at 4,263. Pune so far has 18,015 cases while Nagpur has recorded 1,418 cases.

state health department said recovery rate in Maharashtra is 52.42% while case fatality rate is 4.69%. Currently, 5,56,428 people are under home quarantine and 33,952 people in institutional quarantine.

Furrmore, out of 8,48,026 laboratory samples, 1,47,740 have been tested positive (17.42%) for COVID-19 until June 25. A total of 103 laboratories are functioning for COVID-19 diagsis in Maharashtra currently – 60 government ones and 43 private ones.

Earlier in day, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said government will be deploying 5,600 medical students in state's fight against Coronavirus outbreak and anunced state would conduct antigen tests, which would provide results of COVID-19 tests within an hour, and to do that one lakhs testing kits have been ordered.

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Casualty figures

Out of 192 deaths reported in state on Thursday, 109 occurred in last 48 hours and 83 deaths are from previous period. se include 40 deaths in Mumbai, 31 in Thane district and Municipal Corporations in Thane district, 4 in Palghar, 4 in Solapur, 1 in Malegaon, 1 in Yavatmal, 1 in Jalgaon and 1 in Pune. se 83 deaths have been shown in progressive figures instead of showing in daily figures.