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COVID-19: Maharashtra records 16,620 new cases

| @indiablooms | Mar 15, 2021, at 04:38 am

Mumbai/UNI:Maharashtra on Sunday recorded 16,620 fresh cases of corona positive, highest in the year, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 23,14,413, Health Department said.

While 50 more deaths were also reported taking the death toll to 52,861.

Meanwhile, a total of 8,861 patients recovered and were discharged taking the total number of recoveries to 21,34,072 across the state.

The state government has so far tested 1,75,16,885 samples for the disease .

With this the recovery rates sharply goes down and stand to 92.21 per cent and fatality rate is 2.28 per cent.

At present 1,26,231 active patients across the state were undergoing treatment at different Covid centres and hospitals, they added.

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