Nandurbar is the only district in the state where there are no active cases yet.
Maharashtra Covid Update: Maharashtra on Thursday reported 4,355 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths. According to data provided by the state health department, the daily number of fresh coronavirus infections in the state is the highest in nearly four months. The active number of cases also crossed the 20,000 mark.
This is the second consecutive day in Maharashtra that more than 4,000 cases have been reported. On Wednesday, there were 4,024 infections in the state. The fresh tally of 4,255 was the highest since February 12 when the state reported 4,359 COVID-19 cases.
2 Cases of Omicron Sub-Version
Of the new cases reported in the state, officials said that two cases were of the BA5 sub-variant of the highly-transmissible Omron variant. According to a report by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), two patients were detected in Nagpur.
One of them was a 29-year-old male, while the other was a 54-year-old female and had tested positive for COVID-19 on June 6 and 9 respectively, the report said.
Mumbai’s covid update
Mumbai reported 2,366 fresh COVID-19 cases and two fatalities, while Raigad district reported the third death linked to the respiratory disease in the last 24 hours. Nandurbar is the only district in the state where there are no active cases yet.
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With these additions, the state’s total COVID-19 tally rose to 79,23,697, while the death toll rose to 1,47,880, the department said in a bulletin.
Since last evening, 2,879 patients recovered from COVID-19 in the state, taking their cumulative count to 77,55,183 and 20,634 active cases reported in the state, the bulletin said.
The department said 44,695 coronavirus tests were conducted in the state in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 8,14,72,916.
Maharashtra’s coronavirus figures are as follows: Total cases 79,23,697; fresh cases 4,255; Death toll 1,47,880, cured 77,55,183; active cases 20,634; Total tests 8,14,72,916.
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(PTI Input)