Mumbai: In an alarming development, the single-day coronavirus cases in Maharashtra crossed the 1,000-mark on Wednesday with 1,115 fresh cases, while nine patients succumbed to the infection during the day, the health department said. Significantly, the single-day case count has crossed the 1,000-mark after a gap of seven months.
It can be recalled that the state had recorded 1,076 cases on Sept. 8 last year, an official said. With the new cases, the state's COVID-19 tally rose to 81,52,291 and toll to 1,48,470. On Tuesday, the state had recorded 919 cases and one fatality. On Wednesday, Mumbai recorded 320 new cases and two fatalities, followed by 93 in Pune city that saw three deaths.
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The 320 cases in Mumbai on Wednesday is the highest daily count since Sept. 3 last year, taking the overall tally in the city to 11,59,545, while two more patients succumbed to the infection in the metropolis, the local civic body said. A BMC bulletin said the two new coronavirus-linked deaths pushed up the toll to 19,752.
Pertinently, India has recorded a steep rise in the daily COVID cases for the last few days by the XBB.1.16 subvariant of Omicron. On Thursday, a total of 10,158 new cases were reported in a single day accounting for a 30% single day spike, the Union Health Ministry of India said. As per the fresh data released by the Ministry, the total number of active cases in the country has now increased to 44,998.
The fresh cases have pushed the overall Covid tally in India to 4,42,10,127. Besides, the daily positivity rate was at 4.42%, and the weekly positivity rate at 4.02%. The active cases account for 0.10% of the total infections.
