After recording more than 2,000 daily novel coronavirus cases in the state for more than a week now, Maharashtra's Covid-19 count is nearing 60,000 cases.
On Thursday with 2,598 more cases in the last 24 hours, the state's total coronavirus cases increased to 59,546, said state health department.
The death toll also saw a double-digit growth in a day and now stands at 1,982 after 85 more fatalities were reported since Wednesday, it said.
Apart from that, 698 Covid-19 patients were discharged after recovering from the highly contagious disease, taking the total number of recovered patients to 18,616.