Aurangabad, Mar 4: Marathwada region registered its highest single-day spike in daily coronavirus cases in recent times with 871 people testing positive for the virus here, health authorities said on Thursday.
As per data, 15 patients lost their lives to the disease in the past 24 hrs.
Details from all the district headquarters collected by UNI shows that out of the eight districts of the region, Aurangabad is one of the worst affected with 371 positive cases and seven deaths followed by Beed registering 80 new cases and four deaths, Jalna had 192 new cases and two deaths, Latur had 48 cases and single death, Hingolib had 36 cases and single death, Nanded had 69 new cases, Oarbhanib had 59 cases and Osmanabad registered 16 new cases.
9,855 infection cases and 42 deaths were reported from across the state during the past 24 hours, taking Maharashtra’s cumulative case tally to 21,79,185.
Meanwhile, 6,759 patients were cured and discharged from hospitals during the same period, taking the total number of recoveries so far in Maharashtra to 20,43,349.
With this, the state’s recovery rate continues declining and stand to 93.77per cent as well as and the death rate stand at 2.40 per cent.
According to the health officials, so far, a total of 52,280 patients have succumbed to the disease in the state and more than 82,347 active patients are currently under treatment in Maharashtra.
UNI.
