<span style="color: #222222;">Reporting a spike of 63,729 fresh cases, Maharashtra's tally of coronavirus cases has crossed the mark of 37 lakh. According to the state's public health department, 45,335 patients were discharged post recovery, taking the total number of recovered patients to more than 30 lakh. Meanwhile, the state reported 398 fatalities taking the death toll to 59551. Of the 398 deaths reported today, 234 occurred in the last 48 hours and 110 in the last week. Rest 54 deaths are from the period before last week</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">More than 6 lakh 38 thousand patients are under treatment in state. Pune tops the chart with over 1.16 lakh active cases followed by Mumbai and Thane districts, that have close to 84k active cases while Nagpur has more than 71 thousand active patients.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra's recovery rate stands at&nbsp; 81.12 percent while the case fatality rate stands at 1.61 percent. Maharashtra has conducted 2.33 crore coronavirus tests so far and the positivity rate stands at 15.89 percent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mumbai's tally increased by 8,803 new cases, to 5,62,206 cases. City reported 53 deaths today.&nbsp;</span><br />'' &nbsp;<br />
News On AIR | April 16, 2021 8:58 PM
COVID cases cross 37-lakh mark in Maharashtra