The state's daily count continued to soar as more than 18,000 fresh cases were reported on Thursday taking the total tally to 8.34 lakh cases. With 1,526 cases on Thursday, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai crossed the 1.5 lakh mark as 17 wards in the city now have more than 5,000 cases each.

State health department officials said that Pune led with 2,931 followed by Nagpur with 1,620 and Mumbai with 1,526. Other districts with a higher count were Pimpri-Chinchwad with 979, Nashik with 874 and Sangli with 845.

In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, barring Thane, all other districts had less than 400 cases each.

The state's recovery rate now stands at 72.58 per cent and while 13,988 patients were discharged from the state, 859 patients were discharged from Mumbai after a full recovery.