Covid-19 eases grip, Mumbai records half of Maha’s fatalities

Mumbai, Oct 25 : Maharashtra’s Covid-19 situation remined positive with falling deaths and cases, though the Mumbai Metropolitan Region recorded half the state’s fatalities, health officials said here on Sunday.
The state witnessed just 112 deaths – compared with the peak of 515 (Sep. 15), and ower than the previous low of 125 recorded on October 19 – and the state fatalities shot up from 43,152 to 43,264 now.
The state recorded 6,059 new cases – less than one-third compared with the peak single-day tally of 24,886 (Sep. 11), and the state tally jumped from 16,38,961 to 16,45,020 cases till date.
The state recovery rate continued to remain high but dropped from 88.78 per cent to 88.08 percent – while the current mortality (death) rate stood 2.63 per cent.
Simultaneously, another chunk of 5,648 fullyArecovered patients returned home – taking up the total number of discharged patients from 14,55,107 to 14,60,755 till date – much higher than the 140,486 ‘active cases’ (ill) currently in the state.
As per Sunday’s figures, there was one death roughly every 13 minutes and 252 new cases added every hour to the state tally.