The death toll continued to rise as Maharashtra witnessed 76 COVID-19-related deaths, the highest recorded in a single day. While the state had 2,127 new cases on Tuesday taking the count of COVID-19 cases up to 37213, Mumbai had 1,411 new cases, taking the total count yo 22,746.

State health department officials reported that among the 76 deaths, 43 were in Mumbai, 15 in Thane, six in Pune, three in Akola, two each in Navi Mumbai, Buldhana and Nagpur, and one each in Aurangabad, Dhule and Nashik. Thirty of the patients who died were senior citizens while seven of them were less than 40 years old. Officials said that 58 of the patients were suffering from other ailments and while 32 of the deaths occurred in the last 24 hours, the remaining occurred between April 30 and May 16.