<p>After the sudden spike in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra during March-April, the active cases now have come down below the 1,000-mark.</p>.<p>The total active cases were 865 as on Sunday, according to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme of the Public Health Department.<br /><br />During the day, 75 fresh cases and zero deaths were reported, taking the progressive total to 81,68,403 and 1,48,542, respectively.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/active-covid-cases-in-country-dip-to-15515-1218639.html" target="_blank">Active Covid cases in country dip to 15,515</a></strong></p>.<p>In the last 24 hours, 178 patients were discharged taking the total number of treated patients to 80,18,997.</p>.<p>If one considers the weekly average positive cases, there were 6,055 patients between 17-23 April, 3,977 between 24-30 April, 1,628 between 1-7 May and 865 between 8-14 May.</p>.<p>The highest was on 18 April, when the active cases touched 6,118.</p>.<p>“At present the dominant variant of Covid-19 is Omicron XBB.1.16. A total of 1,377 cases were found to be infected with this variant. There were 14 deaths reported among the cases of this variant,” officials said on Sunday.</p>.<p>Since 1 January, 2023, 112 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. Around 75% of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 85% of the deceased had comorbidities, 14% did not have any comorbidity.</p>
<p>After the sudden spike in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra during March-April, the active cases now have come down below the 1,000-mark.</p>.<p>The total active cases were 865 as on Sunday, according to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme of the Public Health Department.<br /><br />During the day, 75 fresh cases and zero deaths were reported, taking the progressive total to 81,68,403 and 1,48,542, respectively.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/active-covid-cases-in-country-dip-to-15515-1218639.html" target="_blank">Active Covid cases in country dip to 15,515</a></strong></p>.<p>In the last 24 hours, 178 patients were discharged taking the total number of treated patients to 80,18,997.</p>.<p>If one considers the weekly average positive cases, there were 6,055 patients between 17-23 April, 3,977 between 24-30 April, 1,628 between 1-7 May and 865 between 8-14 May.</p>.<p>The highest was on 18 April, when the active cases touched 6,118.</p>.<p>“At present the dominant variant of Covid-19 is Omicron XBB.1.16. A total of 1,377 cases were found to be infected with this variant. There were 14 deaths reported among the cases of this variant,” officials said on Sunday.</p>.<p>Since 1 January, 2023, 112 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. Around 75% of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 85% of the deceased had comorbidities, 14% did not have any comorbidity.</p>
