Maharashtra registered 116 single-day deaths due to the novel Coronavirus, including 38 in Mumbai. However, the doubling rate of infections on Friday increased to 15.7 days from 11 days recorded last week, a sign of improvement, said the state health department officials.

The state death toll is past 2,000, including 1,173 in city. Besides 38 in Mumbai, 17 of 116 died in Jalgaon, nine in Navi Mumbai, seven in Dhule, five in Aurangabad, three each in Bhiwandi, Nashik, Solapur, Mira-Bhayandar and Kolhapur, two each in Raigad and Amravati and one each in Panvel, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali. While 48 of these patients were senior citizens, 55 were in the age group of 40-59 years, and 75 of all the deceased suffered from other ailments. Forty-six of them died over the past two days while the rest succumbed to virus-related complications between May 16 and 26, said state officials.