Amid the rising coronavirus cases in the country, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 23,179 cases in 24 hours, which is the highest single-day infection count so far in 2021, reported PTI.

With the number of cases in the state on a rise for quite some time, the death toll too is increasing at an alarming rate with the number of deaths in 24 hours being 84 on Wednesday.

While Maharashtra had reported its first COVID-19 case in March last year. The daily number of cases had started rising gradually and in September last year, more than one lakh cases were added in Maharashtra within a span of merely a week.

On September 11 last year, the state had reported 24,886 cases, while on September 17, a total of 24,619 cases were added.

The third, fourth and fifth highest figures were reported on September 9 (23,816), September 6 (23,350) and September 10 (23,446).

The number of new single-day cases started gradually going down by the end of last year, although the count started witnessing an upward trend once against from mid-February this year.

Meanwhile, Delhi also recorded recorded its highest number of cases in 2.5 months with 536 fresh cases on Wednesday.