coronavirus fatalities today, taking the death toll in the state to 2,894, according to state health department.Being the hardest-hit state in the country in terms of the pandemic outbreak, Maharashtra has been witnessing a rise in the number of deaths for a past few days.
The second-highest number of deaths in 24 hours stood at 123 on Thursday.Along with that, the state also surpassed the grim milestone of 80,000 novel coronavirus cases since the outbreak.
There are currently 80,229 Covid-19 patients in the state after 2,436 more patients tested positive for the highly contagious disease, it said.
In terms of case count, Maharashtra is loosely followed by Tamil Nadu which has more than 28,000 cases and over 200 deaths.Of these cases,.