A record 778 new COVID-19 cases in Maha; tally soars to 6,427

There was no let-up in the COVID- 19 situation in Maharashtra which recorded 778 cases on Thursday, a fresh single-day high and most of them from Mumbai, taking the state tally to 6,427, while the death toll rose to 283, health officials said.

Fourteen COVID-19 patients died on Thursday, taking the toll in the state to 283, an official said.

So far, 840 COVID-19 patients have been discharged in the state after recovering from the deadly infection, 51 of them on Thursday, he said.

The state authorities had said 553 people tested positive for COVID-19 on April 19 and again on 21, the highest single-day detection till that date.

With 778 new patients testing coronavirus positive, the state set a fresh record of highest single-day detection of cases on Thursday and this took the Maharashtra count soaring to 6,427,