In Maharashtra, 3,717 new COVID-19 cases were reported yesterday. With this, the tally of Corona cases reached 18,80,416.

According to the State Health Department, 70 deaths were reported in the State yesterday taking the tally of deceased to 48,209. Case fatality rate in the State is 2.56 per cent. Health Department data also revealed that 3,083 patients were discharged today taking the tally of such patients to 17,57,005.

The current recovery rate in the State is 93.44 per cent. Till yesterday, there are 74,104 active cases in the State.

Out of 1,17,02,457 laboratory samples, 18,80,416 have tested positive (16.07 per cent) for COVID-19 until yesterday. Currently 5,12,587 people are in home quarantine and 4,403 people are in institutional quarantine.

Meanwhile, India reported one of the lowest cases per million population in the world (158) in the last 7 days; much lower than many other countries of the Western Hemisphere.

The total recovered cases stand at 93,57,464 today. The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases is steadily increasing and it has crossed 90 lakhs (90,00,918) today. The Recovery Rate has improved to touch 95% (94.93%) today.

75.23% of the new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs. Kerala leads with 5,268 persons recovering from COVID while Maharashtra recorded 3,949 recoveries. Delhi registered another 3,191 daily recoveries

Ten States/UTs have contributed 75.71% of the new cases. Kerala reported 5,949 cases in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra registered 4,259 new cases yesterday while West Bengal recorded 2,710 new cases.

391 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours. 77.78% of them are from Ten States/UTs. None of the States/UTs reported double-digit daily fatalities over the past 24 hours. 79.28% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 80 deaths. Delhi also saw a fatality count of 47 while West Bengal reported 44 new deaths.

When compared globally, India recorded one of the lowest new case fatalities per million population in the last 7 days (2).