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Breaking the 20,000 mark on Saturday, Maharashtra registered 1,165 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the state’s positive coronavirus case count to 20,228.
The state also reported 48 deaths, bringing the death toll in Maharashtra to 779, according to data from the state health department.
Mumbai reported a total of 722 new cases of Covid-19 and 27 deaths today.
With the new cases that emerged on Saturday, the financial capital now has a staggering count of 12,864 coronavirus-positive patients in the city alone.
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At least 489 people have succumbed to coronavirus infection in the city of Mumbai in the past month and a half.
Maharashtra is the most affected state in India by contagious coronavirus disease, registering a large number of cases every day for the past month.
On Friday, the state witnessed the deaths of 37 coronavirus patients, the second highest number in a single day so far.
Maharashtra has now registered 10,000 cases in just 9 days, after violating the 10,000 case mark on April 30, for a total of 10,498 cases. It crossed 15,000 cases on May 5, when the total number of Covid-19 cases was 15,525.
The state’s death rate is 3.86%, down from 7.21% on April 12, but the number of deaths is increasing, with 362 deaths recorded in the past ten days. The country’s death rate from Covid-19 is around 3.35%.
Maharashtra broke the 10,000 mark on April 30, 53 days from the first case on March 9. It took the state five days to cross the next 5,000. India’s worst affected state has seen a rapid increase in cases in recent days.
In the last ten days, since April 26, 7,897 cases and 299 deaths have been recorded across the state. Mumbai has seen 4,455 cases and 196 deaths in the same time period.
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