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The number of positive Covid-19 cases crossed the 20,000 mark in Maharashtra on Sunday, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health. The state reported 1,165 cases on Saturday, bringing the total number of cases to 20,228.
It took Maharashtra only nine days to go from 10,000 cases to 20,000 cases, while it took 53 days to reach 10,000 cases after the first case was reported on March 9.
Maharashtra also recorded 48 deaths on Saturday, the highest the highest in a single day so far. The total number of deaths related to coronavirus disease is 779 in Maharashtra.
However, the death rate has been reduced in the state. From 7.21% on April 12, the death rate has improved to 3.83% now, state health authorities said.
While 86.48 percent or 16,482 of the total Covid-19 cases as of Friday are from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR), 85.77 percent or 627 of the total 731 deaths they are also from these regions. These are the most populous areas in the state, hosting about 30 percent (or 35 million) of the state’s total population over 11,600 square km, which is less than five percent of the state’s total area.
On Saturday morning, a special flight carrying Indian nationals from London landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj airport in Mumbai, with 326 passengers. Another flight with 243 Singapore Indians is expected to land in Mumbai on Sunday afternoon and another from Manila at 11pm.
Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday approved free trips on state transport buses for migrants, workers, locals and tourists to travel within the state, or to be on state borders and want to travel to other parts of the state.
So far, Maharashtra has conducted 2.27,804 tests for Covid-19, of which 20,228 have tested positive in the state. Between Friday night and Saturday night, Maharashtra performed 15,454 tests and 1,165 people tested positive, representing 7.53% of the total number of people tested. Currently, 2.41,290 people are in home quarantine, while 13,976 are in institutional quarantine. Three thousand eight hundred patients have fully recovered from various hospitals, after testing positive in the past nine weeks.
Maharashtra police have registered a total of 1,00,245 cases of confinement rapes, most of them against people who gathered in one place. A total of 19,297 people have been arrested since the state was locked up on March 22.
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