Maharashtra recorded as many as 36,000 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the highest one-day rise since the pandemic began.

Mumbai reported 5,505 new cases, its highest daily rise till now, while the nearby Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation reported 1,027 cases, its highest rise so far.

It took the number of cases in the state to almost 26,00,900. The state has added over one lakh infections in the last four days. There are 2,62,685 active cases now.

With 111 deaths reported on Thursday, the toll has reached 53,795.

Pune and neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad reported 3,340 and 1,747 new cases, respectively. As many as 1,340 cases were reported in other areas of the district.

In Marathwada region, Aurangabad reported 1,380 cases while 958 cases were detected in Nanded district.

Nagpur city and Nagpur district (barring city) added 2,656 and 1,014 cases, respectively.

Pune reported 16 deaths during the day, the highest, followed by Nagpur where 14 people died of Covid.

With 20,444 patients discharged from hospitals, the recovery count in the state has risen to 22,83,037.

As many as 1,53,447 coronavirus tests were carried out on Thursday, taking the total to 1,88,78,754.