Mumbai, (Samajweekly) Maharashtra on Friday notched a new high of 116 Covid-19 fatalities – up by 31 over Thursday – to cross the 2,000 figure of deaths, while a record 8,381 patients were fully cured and discharged across the state, health officials said.
Covid-19 deaths zoomed to a fresh high of 116 after the previous record of 105 fatalities on May 27, while the number of cases in Mumbai shot past the 36,000 mark.
With 58 deaths, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region alone – the worst-hit in the country – accounted for exactly half the fatalities, while 2,682 new positive cases were recorded in the state.
This comes to roughly one death every 12 minutes, and an average 112 new cases notched every hour in the state.
Maharashtra has been recording 75 plus fatalities and over 2,000 new patients for the past four consecutive days, with the last highest figure of 3,041 infections notched on May 24.
With the latest fatalities, the state death toll has touched 2,098 while the total number of coronavirus patients increased from 59,546 to 62,228.
The Health Department said of the total number of cases declared till date, 33,124 were active case, dropping by a significant 5,815 over 38,939 on Thursday.
The state now has a notched a recovery rate of 43.38 per cent compared to 31.26 per cent on Thursday and a mortality rate of 3.37 per cent, with the patient doubling time improving to 15.7 days over last week’s 7 days.
Of the the latest deaths, 38 were recorded in Mumbai alone, taking the city deaths up to 1,173 now, while the number of Covid-19 positive patients here shot up by 1,447 cases to touch 36,932 now...
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