According to reports, 12 districts in Maharashtra, are worst hit by the second wave of coronavirus, had witnessed a sharp increase in the number of deaths as compared to the first wave.
The 12 districts include Sindhudurg, Nandurbar, Beed, Parbhani, Hingoli, Nanded, Amravati, Yavatmal, Chandrapur, Wardha, Washim and Gadchiroli saw the number of deaths double from the first to the second wave.
Meanwhile, in five districts -- Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Satara and Sangli -- the number of deaths halved despite a massive surge in infection. In order to deal with the first wave in which they were badly hit, these districts had managed to improve clinical care and establish a standard treatment protocol.
However, Pune, Nagpur, Thane, Mumbai, Nashik, Chandrapur, Nagpur, Satara, Palghar and Solapur have the highest active coronavirus patients.
Rural districts such as Nandurbar, Wardha, Gadchiroli, Hingoli, Parbhani and Sindhudurg, which recorded less than 10,000 cases in 2020, noted a rise in infections – between 13,000 to 50,000 – this year. Whereas, Pune reported an increase from 3.7 lakh in 2020 to 6.28 lakh cases in 2021. The number of deaths in 2020 was 7,767 while 3,730 have died in 2021.
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Mumbai’s COVID-19 caseload grew from 2.9 lakh last year to 4.04 lakh in 2021 until now. The number of deaths reported was 11,116 and 3,497, respectively.
In Thane, 5,577 people died last year. This year, the figure is 2,385 so far despite a higher caseload. Satara saw 1,763 deaths last year while 993 people have died so far in 2021, while in Sangli, there were 1,769 deaths in 2020. This year, there have been 926 deaths until now. All these districts saw a massive spike in caseload.
The highest fatality rate so far this year has been recorded in Kolhapur at 2.89 per cent. Buldhana has recorded the lowest death rate at 0.38 per cent.
Besides, Maharashtra's overall fatality rate, which was 2.56 per cent last year, is 1.08 per cent this year. In nine months of 2020, the state had recorded 19.32 lakh cases and 49,521 deaths and in this year so far, it has recorded 36.69 lakh cases and 39,691 deaths.
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