Three new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/thane-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Thane district</a>, taking its tally of infections to 7,47,403, a health official told PTI on Thursday.
With the addition of the latest cases on Wednesday, there are currently nine active COVID-19 cases in the district, which comes under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, he said.
The death toll remained unchanged at 11,969 and the recovery count stood at 7,36,190, he added.&nbsp;
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday logged 16 new COVID-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 81,36,725, while no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the state, said the health department.
The coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 1,48,417.
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The Pune administrative circle logged the highest cases at seven, followed by five in Mumbai, two in Akola, one each in Nashik and Nagpur circles, said the department in a bulletin.
An administrative circle consists of multiple districts and Maharashtra has eight such circles.
As many as 12 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 79,88,168 and leaving the state with 140 active COVID-19 cases, said the bulletin.
With 14,784 swab samples examined in the last 24 hours, their overall number in the state rose to 8,59,74,748, said the health department.
Maharashtra's coronavirus recovery rate was 98.17 per cent, while the case fatality rate stood at 1.82 per cent.
According to the health department, as many as 1,92,568 passengers arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur international airports since December 24 when fresh screening of passengers was started in the backdrop of a spurt in coronavirus cases in some countries.
(With inputs from PTI)
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With the addition of the latest cases on Wednesday, there are currently nine active COVID-19 cases in the district, which comes under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region

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