Published 22:19 IST, June 23rd 2020

Maharashtra's COVID-19 death toll zooms to 6531, case count nears 1.4 lakh

Maharashtra reported 248 COVID-19 deaths reported on Tuesday, of which 75 occurred in the last 48 hours, and rest 173 are from the previous period

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Maharashtra reported 248 COVID-19 deaths reported on Tuesday, of which 75 occurred in last 48 hours, and rest 173 are from previous period, state health department said. death toll in state stands at 6531.

state reported 3,214 new Coronavirus cases and 1925 recoveries in last 24 hours. total number of COVID-19 cases stands at 1,39,010 while that of recoveries is 69,631. As of June 23, re are 62,833 active cases in state.

In state capital Mumbai, 846 people were diagsed with COVID-19 on Tuesday, taking aggregate to 68,481. Meanwhile, tally in neighbouring Thane touched 26,506, while that in Palghar stood at 3,866. Pune so far has 16,907 cases while Nagpur has recorded 1,352 cases.

state health department said recovery rate in Maharashtra is 50.09% while case fatality rate is 4.69%. Currently, 6,05,141 people are under home quarantine and 26,572 people in institutional quarantine.

Furrmore, out of 8,02,775 laboratory samples, 1,39,010 have been tested positive (17.31%) for COVID-19 until June 23. A total of 103 laboratories are functioning for COVID-19 diagsis in Maharashtra currently – 60 government ones and 43 private ones. According to state health minister Rajesh Tope, count of tests per million in state has w doubled.

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Deaths

Out of 248 deaths reported in state, 75 occurred in last 48 hours and 173 deaths are from previous period. se include 65 deaths in Mumbai, 42 in Solapur, 15 in Aurangabad, 13 in Thane, 18 in Nashik, 7 in Jalgaon, 1 in Amaravati, 1 in Buldhana, 2 in KalyanDombivali, 1 in Malegaon, 3 in Mira-Bhayandar, 1 in Pimpri-Chinchwad, 2 in Ratnagiri, 1 in Sangli, and 1 in Satara.

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