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Maharashtra on Friday recorded 2,371 new coronavirus cases and 10 more deaths linked to the infection, the state health department said.
With these additions, the state’s overall COVID-19 tally rose to 80,14,823, while the toll increased to 1,48,015, the department said in a bulletin.
The state had recorded 2,229 cases and four fatalities on Thursday.
Mumbai logged 365 fresh coronavirus cases and two new fatalities.
Pune city and Satara district recorded two coronavirus-linked fatalities each, while municipal corporations of Thane, Navi Mumbai, Nashik, and Solapur district registered one death each, said the bulletin.
The state’s case fatality rate was 1.84 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 97.95 per cent.
The bulletin said 2,914 patients recovered from the coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 78,50,808 and leaving the state with 16,000 active cases.
The health department said 39,218 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, pushing up the number of swab samples examined so far in the state to 8,25,59,392.
The count of COVID-19 cases in Nashik district rose to 4,78,149 with the addition of 77 new patients in the last 24 hours, health department officials said.
The number of coronavirus patients currently receiving treatment in the district stood at 636, the officials said.
Maharashtra’s coronavirus figures are as follows: Total cases 80,14,823, new cases 2,371, death toll 1,48,015, recoveries 78,50,808, active cases 16,000, total tests 8,25,59,392.
