Mumbai city registered a one-day spike of 9,202 cases.
Mumbai division, comprising Mumbai city and its satellite towns, saw 18,408 cases and 52 deaths.
This took the total number of cases there to 10,45,980 and death toll to 20,939.
With 45,391 patients getting discharge from hospitals during the day, the recovery count rose to 26,95,148.
There are 5,34,603 active cases in the state at present.
Currently,26,95,065 people are in home quarantine and 24,157 in institutional quarantine.
Of the 301 deaths reported on Friday, 158 had occurred in the last 48 hours, the health department said in a statement.
Pune division saw 11,862 cases, including 5,714 in Pune city and 2,026 in Pimpri Chinchwad.
Nagpur division reported 10,335 new cases, including 4492 in Nagpur city alone, while Kolhapur division reported 774 cases, Aurangabad division 2,851 cases, Latur division 4,472 cases, Akola division 1,916 cases and Nashik division 8,375 cases.
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India tops 10 million confirmed COVID-19 cases
India s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive COVID-19 vaccination in the new year.
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People are tested for COVID-19 in New Delhi on Oct. 8.(Altaf Qadri/The Associated Press)