Second highest tally & toll for Maharashtra, but recoveries in Mumbai go past 1 lakh

MUMBAI: Maharashtra went back to reporting over 12,000 new Covid-19 cases in one day after a marginal dip in the last two days. On Wednesday, the state reported 12,712 new cases and 344 deaths, its second highest cases and deaths for a day so far. The highest cases reported in a day were 12,822 on August 8 and highest fatalities in a day were 390, on August 9.

With the addition, total cases in the state rose to 5,48,313, close to the 5.5 lakh mark, while the total fatalities stood at 18,650. Pune division continued to report the highest cases. Of the 12,712, it added 3,632 cases and 60 deaths, followed by Thane division (includes Mumbai Metropolitan Region ) that reported 3,470 cases and 99 deaths. Nashik division reported the third highest deaths at 57 and 2,306 cases.

Of the 344 deaths, 238 are from the last 48 hours and 66 from last week, while the other 40 are from before that. Due to a data clean-up exercise, these deaths were added to the toll on Wednesday. The state's case fatality rate stood at 3.4%. Mumbai added 1,132 cases and 50 deaths to take its cases to 1,26,356 and deaths to 6,943, close to the 7,000 mark. In a positive sign for Mumbai, the total recoveries crossed the 1 lakh mark. The city has over five times more recoveries than active cases (19,047) as on Wednesday. The state too discharged a record 13,408 patients in a day. Also, the number of discharges were higher than daily additions; total discharges in the state were 3,81,843. Mumbai's recovery rate is now 79%.

There were 407 cases in NMMC areas and 8 deaths. PCMC reported 189 cases and 8 deaths. Panvel rural added 50 positives and one death, and Uran taluka reported 14 cases and 4 deaths.

Thane city added 199 cases, taking the tally there to 21,698, while 9 new deaths along with 19 more fatalities added after reconciliation took the toll to 713.

MBMC case tally crosses 10,000

The Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation’s (MBMC) caseload has crossed the 10,000 mark. It has taken just a little over a month to add 5,000 new cases. On Wednesday 178 new cases took the tally to 10,096. The region had touched 5,206 cases on July 10. It took 33 days to add 4,890 more cases.