Nearly 7,000 fresh cases in State

Maharashtra reported 6,971 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday — its biggest spike in nearly three months — as its active case tally breached the 50,000-mark to reach 52,956. A week ago, the tally stood a little over 35,000. The surge was notable in Mumbai city and Pune, Nagpur and Amravati districts, which contributed the maximum cases to take the total case tally to 21,00,884. Thirty-five fatalities pushed the death toll to 51,788. With just 2,417 patients discharged in the last 24 hours, the tally of recoveries stood at 19,94,947. The State’s recovery rate has dipped to 94.96% and the case fatality rate stands at 2.47%.