Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally swells with 4787 new cases; positivity rate at 13.43%

Maharashtra saw a huge rise in daily COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, February 17, with 4787 more persons tested positive for vel coronavirus. This has propelled state's COVID-19 tally to 20,76,093. With a major spurt in cases, Mumbai continues to be a major vel coronavirus hotspot with 721 patients recorded in day. At present, re are 38,013 active cases in state. With 3853 COVID-19 patients discharged in day, number of recovered soared to 19,85,261. 

40 deaths — 7 from Amravati, 5 each from Ratnagiri and Kalyan Dombivali, three from Mumbai, Nashik and Pune, two from Nagpur and Panvel and one each from Thane, Palghar, Pimpri Chinchw, Solapur, Sangli, Sindhudurg, Latur, Beed, Yavatmal and Buldhana were reported on Wednesday. Out of total deaths reported in day, 13 occurred in last 48 hours, 15 in last week and rest from period before. Until w, a total of 51,631 persons in state have died owing to COVID-19. 

So far, over 1.53 crore samples have been tested for vel coronavirus in labs operational across state. While 1,95,704 persons are under home quarantine, 1664 ors have been mitted to institutional quarantine centres.  COVID-19 positivity rate, recovery rate and fatality rate in Maharashtra stand at 13.43%, 95.62% and 2.49% respectively. 

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COVID-19 vaccination in Maharashtra

On January 3,  Drugs Controller General of India approved COVISHIELD and COVAXIN for restricted emergency use. Manufactured by Serum Institute of India with techlogy transfer from Oxford University-AstraZeneca, COVISHIELD is a Recombinant Chimpanzee evirus vector vaccine with its overall efficacy of 70.42%. On or hand, COVAXIN is a Whole Virion Inactivated Corona Virus Vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and NIV.

On January 16, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray launched COVID-19 vaccination drive in state and inaugurated vaccination centre at BKC. In state, this drive is being conducted on 5 days every week- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. With 7,62,749 healthcare and frontline workers getting vaccinated in Maharashtra so far,  total number of iculations in India has reached 91,86,757. 

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