Aurangabad, Mar 17:Eight districts of Marathwada region of Maharashtra state reported 2921 fresh cases during the past 24 hours, and 13 more deaths, the health authorities informed, here on Wednesday.

Details from all the district headquarters collected by UNI shows that out of the eight districts of the region, Aurangabad district was the worst affected with 1271 cases and seven deaths, followed by Beed with 283 new cases and 2 deaths, Nanded registered 552 new cases and single death, Latur registered 199 new cases and single death, Osmanabad registered 123 new cases and single death, Parbhani had 123 cases and single death, Hingoli had 73 cases and single death and Jalna recorded 304 cases.





Meanwhile, during the past 24 hours, total 17,864 fresh cases of corona were spotted across the state, the highest in the year, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 23,47,328.

While 87 more deaths were also reported, taking the death toll to 52,996.

Meanwhile, a total of 9,510 patients recovered and were discharged taking the total number of recoveries to 21,54,253 across the state.

The state government has so far tested 1,77,15,522 samples for the disease .

With this, the recovery rates sharply goes down and stand to 91.77 per cent and fatality rate is 2.26 per cent.

At present 1,38,813 active patients across the state were undergoing treatment at different Covid centres and hospitals, they added.(UNI)