<p>The fears of a mega spike seem to be coming true for Maharashtra, as the state recorded the biggest jump in coronavirus death toll on Tuesday.</p>.<p>The state recorded 31 deaths and 729 positive cases on Tuesday. This took the death toll to 409 and cases of infected people to 9,318.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-india-sees-lowest-daily-growth-rate-tally-crosses-26k-concerns-mount-over-maharashtra-827545.html" target="_blank">For latest updates and live news on coronavirus, click here</a></strong></p>.<p>Mumbai recorded 393 fresh cases and 25 deaths, taking the total cases to 5982 and death toll to 244.</p>.<p>Dharavi recorded 42 fresh cases and 4 deaths taking the tally to 330 and 18, respectively. Out of the 31 deaths today, 16 were men and 15 women.</p>.<p>Twenty of them aged over 60 years, while 10 were between 40 to 59 years of age group and 1 was under 40 years of age.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE ONLY ON DH</a></strong></p>.<p>Twenty out of 31 patients (65%) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, heart disease, TB. Out of 1,29,931 laboratory samples, 1,20,136 were negative and 9318 tested positive for coronavirus till Tuesday.</p>
<p>The fears of a mega spike seem to be coming true for Maharashtra, as the state recorded the biggest jump in coronavirus death toll on Tuesday.</p>.<p>The state recorded 31 deaths and 729 positive cases on Tuesday. This took the death toll to 409 and cases of infected people to 9,318.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-india-sees-lowest-daily-growth-rate-tally-crosses-26k-concerns-mount-over-maharashtra-827545.html" target="_blank">For latest updates and live news on coronavirus, click here</a></strong></p>.<p>Mumbai recorded 393 fresh cases and 25 deaths, taking the total cases to 5982 and death toll to 244.</p>.<p>Dharavi recorded 42 fresh cases and 4 deaths taking the tally to 330 and 18, respectively. Out of the 31 deaths today, 16 were men and 15 women.</p>.<p>Twenty of them aged over 60 years, while 10 were between 40 to 59 years of age group and 1 was under 40 years of age.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE ONLY ON DH</a></strong></p>.<p>Twenty out of 31 patients (65%) had high-risk co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, heart disease, TB. Out of 1,29,931 laboratory samples, 1,20,136 were negative and 9318 tested positive for coronavirus till Tuesday.</p>