Covid-19 pandemic: Maharashtra records 130 cases, four deaths

Maharashtra on Friday recorded 130 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths, which took the state's infection tally to 78,74,948 and death toll to 1,47,810, a health department official said. All four deaths were reported from Pune district.

On Thursday, the state had reported 128 cases and six fatalities. So far, 77,26,326 people, or 98 per cent of the caseload, have recovered, including 142 in the last 24 hours, leaving Maharashtra with 812 active cases.

The districts of Sindhudurg, Jalgaon, Latur, Hingoli, Nanded, Yavatmal, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia and Chandrapur do not have any active cases at the moment.

The fatality rate in the state was 1.87 per cent. As many as 29,472 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours which took the overall number of samples tested to 7,96,09,229.

Maharashtra's coronavirus figures are as follows: New cases: 130; Deaths: 4; Active cases: 812; Tests conducted: 29,472.