On Wednesday, Maharastra as well as mumbai experienced a highest 24 hours toll. Only after a week of the first phase of ‘mission begin again’ started the death rate was highest in a day. The state saw its highest single-day rise in cases (3,254) ,the previous highest toll was on June 5 (139 cases).
The city in total has more positive cases (52,667) than the cases of Wuhan (50,333) the epicentre of corona virus outbreak.
Mumbai city, which recorded a staggering 1,595 of these new cases to post its highest day-surge as well, breached the 20,000-case mark to rise to 20,150 cases.
Exactly a week ago, on May 10, the State had reported its previous single-day high case surge of 1,943.
In Mumbai, BMC officials didn’t respond to why there was a sudden increase in deaths. The infertility rate also rose up from 3.27% to 3.65% on Wednesday. However the civic official said that many patients are getting recovered.
They also mentioned that from 1,833 serious patients, 920 improved and 598 were discharged as well.
Besides Mumbai and Pune, the other major increase in new cases were reported from parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Thane reporting 157 new cases to touch 1,778 while Navi Mumbai reported 86 new cases to reach a total 1,368.
Till date 2,73,239 samples have been tested in Maharastra from which only 33,053 have been tested positive.