Mumbai: Covid-19 claimed 17 victims in the state even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray extended the lockdown till April 30, officials said on Saturday.
The state also recorded 187 new positive cases. The state's death toll has now touched 127 and the number of positive cases shot up from Friday's 1,574 to total 1761 today.
Among the victims are Mumbai's 12 including 4 women, two in Pune, and one each in Satara, Dhule and Malegaon, and majority of the victims suffered from other serious diseases like diabetes, hypertension, asthma or heart problems.
On the positive side, 208 patients have fully recovered and discharged, including 2 from Mumbai today. As many as 38,800 persons are in home quarantine while another 4,964 are