In just a day, Maharashtra’s recovery rate jumped from 31.2 per cent to 43.3 per cent, surpassing the national average of 42.8 per cent. On Friday, data for the day released by the Maharashtra government showed 8,381 people, of them 7,358 from Mumbai alone, had been discharged from dedicated Covid hospitals or Covid Care Centres, or had completed their 14-day home quarantine. The total count of recovery stands at 26,997 in the state. Until Thursday, Maharashtra was discharging around 1,000 cases every day, but it grew 8-fold on Friday to 8,381. Until Thursday in Mumbai, the number of discharged/recovered patients was 8,650, while on Friday, that number doubled to 16,008.