Maharashtra on Monday recorded 5,984 new coronavirus cases, a significant drop in daily numbers, which took its caseload to 16,01,365, a health official said.
125 fatalities took the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 42,240, he added.
The state had reported a single-day rise of 9,060 cases on Sunday.
Meanwhile, 15,069 patients were discharged on Monday, taking the number of recoveries in the state to 13,84,879.
There are 1,73,759 active cases in the state.
So far, as many as 81,85,778 people have been tested.
The state's recovery rate is 86.48 per cent, while the case fatality rate is 2.64 percent.
Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) recorded 2,405 new cases and 60 deaths on Monday, including 1,234 new cases and 43 deaths in Mumbai alone.
The case tally in the MMR is 5,55,786 and death toll is 17,331 (2,43,169 cases and 9,819 deaths in Mumbai).
Pune city saw 210 new cases on Monday, Pimpri Chinchwad 141, Nashik city 135 and Nagpur city reported 172 new infections.
