PUNE: The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) added more number of Covid-19 cases (1,152) as against recoveries (1,068) on Thursday.
Among the fresh infections, the Pune municipal limits recorded 334. The rural and Pimpri Chinchwad civic limits recorded 590 and 228 cases, respectively. As for discharges recorded on Thursday, 615 were from the rural and Cantonment limits, 241 from the PCMC areas and 212 from the PMC localities.
The region had recorded more recoveries for the last four consecutive days. Daily cases went up on Thursday on increased testing. As many as 25,879 tests were conducted in the region on Thursday.
Daily deaths continued to stay in single-digit in the region in the last 24 hours, with nine more patients succumbing to the infection.
Meanwhile, daily Covid-19 detections in the state and Mumbai reported a dip while fatalities continued to be in the same range on Thursday. The state reported 8,010 new cases and 170 deaths, taking the caseload to 61.8 lakh and the toll to 1,26,560 so far. The doubling rate of the state was 502 days and the weekly growth rate of cases in the state was 0.14%.
