Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 22 : Maharashtra reported four deaths due to Covid-19 infection, and 850 new cases in the last 24 hours, state's health department said in a bulletin on Saturday.
The bulletin said that 648 patients were discharged on Saturday. The recovery rate in the state is 98.10 per cent.
16,412 Covid-19 tests were conducted on April 22, out of these 13,445 were conducted in government laboratories, 2799 at private laboratories and 168 were self-tested.
Since January 1st, 84 deaths have been recorded due to Covid-19. 72.62 per cent of these deaths occured in individuals above 60 years of age, the bulletin said.
As per officials, on April 22, there were 6167 active Covid-19 cases in the state.
World Health Orgzation (WHO) has declared the Novel Corona Virus, COVID-19 as a Pandemic.
Globally, as of April 19, there have been 76,37,40,140 Confirmed cases and 69,08,554 deaths.
In India till April 22, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 are 4,48,81,876 and the recovered patients are 4,42,83,021 including 5,31,300 deaths and 67,556 active cases.
The situation of confirmed COVID-19 cases in North Eastern states of Assam (7,46,115) Mpur (1,39,950), Meghalaya (96,826), Mizoram (2,38,988), Arunachal Pradesh (66,902) Nagaland (35,997), Sikkim (44,540), according to official data available on Aarogya Setu App.
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