Maharashtra witnessed another harrowing day on the Covid-19 front on Sunday, as the pandemic claimed 89 more lives and another 2,487 people tested positive for coronavirus in various parts of the State.

With the fresh fatalities and infections, the total number of deaths mounted to 2,286 and infected cases jumped to a staggering 68,655.

With as many as 29,329 patients having been discharged, the State health authorities pegged the number of “active cases” in the State at 36,031.

Of the total deaths reported on Sunday, Mumbai accounted for 52, while there were nine deaths each in Navi Mumbai and Pune, six deaths in Malegaon, five in Thane, four in Kalyan-Dombivli and two in solapour and one each in Osmanabad and Yavatmal.

There have been a total of 591 deaths in Maharashtra during the six days. On May 26 (Tuesday) the State had witnessed 97 deaths, while there were 105 deaths on Wednesday, 85 deaths on Thursday, 116 deaths on Friday and  99 deaths on Saturday. Sunday’s Covid-19 toll was 89.

Of the dead, 46 were men while 43 were women. Forty seven of them aged over 60 years, 35 were from the age group 40 to 59 years and 7 were aged below 40 years.

“Fifty six out of 89 patients (63 per cent) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease,” a State health bulletin said.  Out of the total deaths ported today, 39 deaths occurred in the last two days and the rest are from the period April 27 to May 27, 2020.

Out of 4,62,176 laboratory samples tested so far, 67,655 samples tested have positive for Covid-19. 

There are 44 Government and 34 private (78 total) laboratories functioning in the state currently. As many as  3585 tests per 10 lakh population are being conducted. At the national level, it is 2722 tests per 10 lakh population.

There are 3157 active containment zones in the state currently. Total 18,490 surveillance squads worked across the state on Sunday and surveillance of 70.14 lakh population was done.

Some key observations made in the State health bulletin were: Patient doubling time for the State was 11.7 days in the last week, it has now improved· to 17.5 days. The same for the country is 15.7 days.  Recovery rate in the state is 43.35 per cent. Case fatality rate in the State: 3.37 per cent.

Currently, 5,58,100 people are in home quarantine. There are 72,704 beds available in quarantine institutions and 34,480 people are in institutional quarantine currently.