<span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra reported 48,270 new cases of COVID-19 and 52 deaths yesterday. With 42,391 recoveries during the day, the total number of recovered people has reached over seventy lakh while the death toll has reached one lakh forty-two thousand.<br />''<br />''The state reported 144 cases of Omicron variant, taking the total number of cases to 2,343. Out of these 1,171 patients have recovered so far.<br />''<br />''Pune city reported 8,464 cases whereas Mumbai reported 5,008 fresh cases.<br />''<br />''Of 52 fatalities, Mumbai circle reported 27 deaths, Nashik seven, Pune six, Akola five, Latur three and Kolhapur and Nagpur two deaths each.</span><br />