As many as 2,946 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours across Maharashtra, said the state health department on Sunday. With this, the cumulative tally of the virus in the state has reached 79,10,577.
Of the total, Mumbai recorded 1,803 fresh cases.
In addition to this, two patients died of the disease since Saturday, taking the death toll in Maharashtra to 1,47,870. The case fatality rate in the state stands at 1.86%.
The number of active cases in the srare stands at 16,370. Gondia is the only district in the state which didn't have any active case as of Sunday.
A total of 1,432 patients recovered from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative number of recoveries in Maharashtra to 77,46,337. The recovery rate in the state is 97.92%.
The state has conducted 42,922 tests since Saturday, taking the number of samples tested so far to 8,13,21,768.
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