The state & city in India that are worst hit with Covid19, which are Maharashtra and Mumbai reported the sharpest single-day spike of 25,833 and 2877 reported infections on Thursday.

Last year, Maharashtra had reported 24,886 cases on September 11 and Mumbai had reported 2848 new cases of infections, the last highest single-day spike in Covid19 infections.

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Authorities recently accepted that Maharashtra was now in the middle of the second-wave of Covid19 pandemic. Earlier the caseload in Maharashtra had dropped to fewer than 2000 cases of single-day infections in the first week of February. With the current positivity rate, the active caseload of Covid19 in Maharashtra can very easily touch the three-lakh mark.

At present Maharashtra has 1,66,353 active cases of Covid19, which is contributing a substantial percentage to India’s active cases of 2,52,364. The state accounts for 63.21% of the daily new cases as per the data released by the Union Health Ministry, on Thursday. Nine out of 10 districts with the highest number of active cases are in Maharashtra which include Nagpur (21,496), Pune (32,359), Aurangabad (9,621), Thane (14,644), Nashik (9,821), Jalgaon (4,610), Nanded (4,059) and Amravati (3,697).  The only district which is not in Maharashtra is Bangaluru urban with 7344 active cases.

In the second wave of the pandemic being experienced by Maharashtra, 95% of patients are asymptomatic. The state is currently focusing on speeding up the vaccination drive.