Aurangabad, Mar 30 :Seven districts of Maharashtra’s Marathwada region registered 3,861 fresh cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, and 63 more deaths were also registered, health authorities informed here Today.

Details from all the district headquarters collected by UNI show that out of the eight districts of the region, Aurangabad was the worst affected where the highest ie 1272 cases and 26 deaths were reported, followed by Nanded with 1098 new cases and 19 deaths, Jalna registered 370 new cases and eight deaths, Parbhani had 392 cases and six deaths, Latur had 393 cases and three deaths, Hingoli had 97 cases and a single death and Osmanabad 249 cases and single death.

Meanwhile ,during the past 24 hours total 31,643 fresh cases of COVID-19 were registered across in the state, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 27,45,518.

The state also registered 102 more deaths, taking the death toll to 54,283.

Meanwhile, a total of 20,854 patients recovered and were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 23,53,307 across the state.

The state’s recovery rate currently stands at 85.71 per cent and the fatality rate is two per cent.

At present there are 3,36,584 active patients across the state undergoing treatment at different COVID-19 centres and hospitals, they added.(UNI)