More than 11,000 fresh cases were reported across the state on Sunday even as the recovery rate touched 70 per cent while the city's recovery rate touched 80 per cent. Barring Mumbai, districts in the rest of the MMR region reported fewer than 400 cases each. Other districts such as Pune reported 2,183 cases, Nagpur had 691 while Kolhapur had 518 cases. In the state, 8,837 patients were discharged, 719 patients were from the city and there are currently 1.58 lakh active cases.

There were 288 COVID-19 related deaths reported in the state as the mortality rate now stands at 3.36 per cent. Among districts with the highest number of deaths, Mumbai had 47 deaths, Pune followed with 44 while Kolhapur had 36. Health officials clarified that of the total deaths, 233 were from the last 48 hours while 31 are from last week and the rest are from the week before that.