Mumbai: Maharashtra recorded a new high of 122 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, taking the state toll zooming past the 2,500 mark to touch 2,587 fatalities even as the state grappled with the Cyclone Nisarga fury.

The state recorded its highest single-day death figure on Wednesday, making it the fourth time it has crossed the 100-plus toll in 8 days. The previous high of three-figure tallies were - 103 on June 2, 105 on May 27 and the second-highest 116 on May 29.

The toll includes 60 deaths in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region alone - the worst-hit in the country, besides 2,560 new positive cases recorded in the state.

This amounts to over five deaths and an average 106 new cases notched every hour in the state.

Maharashtra has been recording 75-plus fatalities and over 2,000 new patients daily for the past nine days, with the previous highest figure of 3,041 infections notched on May 24.

The total number of coronavirus patients increased to 74,860, with the Health Department reporting that 39,935 of them were active cases, increasing by 1,442 over Tuesday's 38,493.

The state has, however, recorded an encouraging recovery rate of 43.18 percent and a mortality rate of 3.45 percent.

Of the total 122 fatalities on Wednesday, 49 were recorded in Mumbai alone - besides three persons from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal - taking the city death toll up to 1,417 now, while the number of COVID-19 positive patients here shot up by 1,276 cases to touch 43,492 now.

Besides Mumbai's 49 deaths, there were 19 fatalities in Pune, 16 in Aurangabad, 10 each in Solapur and Thane (Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Mira-Bhayander towns), four in Dhule, two each in Akola, Jalgaon and Kolhapur, and one each in Palghar, Ahmednagar, Nandurbar, Jalna and Osmanabad.