Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS): A day after recording the lowest infections in a week, Maharashtra's Covid-19 deaths and cases again spiked on Tuesday, with the Akola region crossing the 1K-mark in terms of fatalities, health officials said here.

Compared to Monday's 263 deaths, the state witnessed a sharp spurt of 370 fatalities on Tuesday, but lower than the peak of 515 recorded on September 15), taking the state's death toll to 38,717.

The state recorded another 12,258 new infections on Tuesday - nearly half the peak single-day tally of 24,886 recorded on September 11 - taking the state's overall COVID tally to 14,65,911.

In relief, the state's recovery rate also shot up for the third day - from 80 percent to 80.48 percent - while the current mortality (death) rate remained stable at 2.64 percent for the fourth day.

Against this, 17,141 fully recovered patients returned home on Tuesday, taking the total number of discharged patients to 11,79,726 till date - much higher than the 247,023 active cases currently present in the state.

As per Tuesday's figures, there was one death roughly every 3.8 minutes and 511 new cases added every hour to the state's tally.

Of the 370 deaths, Mumbai led the chart with 47 fatalities, followed by Pune (31), Nashik (30), Nagpur (24), Solapur (22), Thane and Satara (21 each), Bhandara (19), Sangli (15), Osmanabad and Beed (13 each), Kolhapur (11), Palghar, Raigad and Jalna (10 each), Yavatmal (9), Nanded, Amravati and Wardha (8 each), Latur (7), Sindhudurg and Parbhani (5 each), Jalgaon and Buldhana (4 each), Ahmednagar and Akola (3 each), Nandurbar, Ratnagiri and Chandrapur (2 each), and Aurangabad and Gondia (1 each).

Remaining in the sub-50 range for the fifth day this month, Mumbai recorded 47 fatalities, taking the city's toll to 9,202, while the number of corona cases shot up by 1,625 to 217,113.

Of the total 8 circles, Mumbai circle (MMR, comprising Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad) remains on the edge as deaths spiral and cases pile up.

The MMR fatalities shot up by 88 - taking up the toll to 16,464 - and with another spike of 3,540 new infectees, the total cases zoomed to 506,123.

With another 74 fatalities, the Pune circle's (comprising Pune, Solapur and Satara districts) death toll increased to 8,387 while the daily infections increased by 2,909 to 384,960.

Nashik circle has so far recorded 3,848 fatalities and 196,311 cases, followed by Kolhapur circle's 3,080 deaths and 98,949 cases, and Nagpur circle's 2,706 deaths and 117,081 cases.

Latur circle has so far recorded 1,665 deaths and 60,351 cases, Aurangabad circle reported 1,403 fatalities and 55,136 cases, followed by Akola circle which catapulted to the four-digit level with deaths going up from 992 on Monday to 1,016 now, besides reporting 45,316 cases till now.

Meanwhile, the number of people sent to home-quarantine increased from 22,00,160 to 22,38,351 now, while the number of those in institutional quarantine went down from 26,749 to 25,828 on Tuesday.