With 2,091 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours in the state, Maharashtra's Covid-19 count today breached 54,000-mark.
The total number of confirmed coronavirus patients in the state now stands at 54,758, according to the state health department.
With 97 more fatalities reported in the state, the death toll also rose to 1,792 today, it said. This is the highest single-day death toll the state recorded since the pandemic.
Along with that, as many as 1,168 patients got discharged after recovering from the highly contagious disease today, taking the total number of recovered patients in the state to 16,954.