Maharashtra logs 3,579 new COVID cases, 70 die
Maharashtra reported 3,579 new COVID-19 infections and 70 pandemic fatalities on Thursday, pushing its tally of positive cases to 19,81,623 while death toll touched 50,291 till now. The recovery rate of the state is constant at 94.75 per cent for the last three months. As many as 3,309 patients have been discharged in the last 24 hours, increasing the recoveries to 18,77,588.
Mumbai reported 607 new cases and nine COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, increasing the total count to 3,01,078 and 11,219 patients succumbed to the disease so far in the city. âEight of nine patients had comorbidities. However, two patients who died were below 40 years of age. One death was between 40 to 60 years, six deaths were above 60 years of age,â said senior health official.
Woman getting tested for covid-19 in Maharashtra.
MUMBAI: Maharashtra s Covid-19 tally rose to 19,69,114 with the addition of 3,558 fresh cases on Sunday, the state health department said. With 34 more patients succumbing to the viral infection, the cumulative death toll in the state mounted to 50,061, it said.
A total of 2,302 patients were discharged after treatment during the day, taking the total count of recoveries in Maharashtra to 18,63,702.
Maharashtra is now left with 54,179 active cases.
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Maharashtra: COVID-19 vaccine dry run carried out in four districts
A dry run to assess the readiness of the mechanism laid out for the COVID-19 immunization drive, which is expected to begin soon, was conducted on Saturday in four districts of Maharashtra. The exercise was conducted at identified health centres in Nagpur, Jalna, Pune and Nandurbar districts.
Specific teams were formed for various tasks by the district administrations and activities like uploading of dummy beneficiary data, session site creation, vaccine allocation, communicating vaccination details to beneficiaries and vaccinators, and beneficiary mobilisation etc are being carried out.
Speaking to reporters in his home district Jalna, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the state is prepared to undertake actual COVID-19 vaccine inoculation exercise in the coming days.