Maharashtra crossed a grim Covid-19 milestone of 51,000 deaths on Friday, as 48 more people succumbed to the pandemic in various parts of the State.

On the third consecutive day when the Covid-19 infections shot past 8,000 mark to touch a daily case tally of 8,333, the State witnessed 48 more deaths.

With the fresh deaths, the total Covid-19 deaths in the State jumped from 51,993 to 52,041.

Similarly, with 8,333 new cases, the total infections recorded till date has increased from 21,29,821 to 21,38,134.

As 4,936 patients were discharged from the hospitals across the state after full recovery, the total number of people discharged from the hospitals since the second week of March last year went up to 20,17,303 The recovery rate in the state dropped marginally from 94.49 per cent to 94.35 per cent.

With three fresh deaths, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai rose from 11,463 to 11,466 while the infected cases went up by 1035 to trigger a jump in the infections from  3,22,844 to 3,23,879.

Meanwhile, the number of “active cases” total cases in the state went up from 64,260 to 67,608. The fatality rate in the state dropped from 2.44 per cent to 2.43 per cent.

Pune district, which continued to be the worst-affected city-district in Maharashtra, saw the total number of cases increase from 4,05,307 to 4,06,752, while the total number of deaths in Pune went up from 8,048 to 8052.

Thane district remained in the third spot — after Pune and Mumbai – after the total number of infections rose from 2,78,288 to 2,78,966, while the total deaths climbed from 5,803 to 5,805.

Of the 1,61,12,519 samples sent to laboratories, 21,38,154  have tested positive (13.27 per cent) for Covid-19 until Friday.

Currently, 3,18,707 people are in home quarantine while 2,688 people are in institutional quarantine.