Covid deaths, cases rise again in Maha, active cases drop (Roundup)

Mumbai, Nov 19 : Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths and new cases zoomed sharply on Thursday, sparking fresh alarm, though the number of active cases dropped below the 80,000-mark, health authorities said.
After remaining in double-digits earlier this week, the state for the second consecutive day witnessed three-digit figures of 154 deaths on Thursday, taking Maharashtra’s overall Covid death toll to 46,356.
Shooting above the 5,000-mark for the second day, the state recorded 5,535 fresh infections, taking Maharashtra’s Covid tally to 17,63,055 cases till date.
The state’s recovery rate continued to improve, from 92.75 per cent to 92.79 per cent, while the current mortality rate remained stable at 2.63 per cent for nine days in a row now.
Simultaneously, another lot of 5,860 fully recovered patients returned home, taking the total number of recoveries to 16,35,971 till date, much higher than the 79,738 active cases currently present in the state.
Of the 154 deaths reported on Thursday, Solapur led the chart with 25 fatalities, followed by 17 each in Thane and Palghar, 12 each in Mumbai and Satara, 11 in Pune, 8 in Nashik, 7 in Nagpur, 6 in Amravati, 5 in Chandrapur, 4 each in Nandurbar and Nanded, 3 each in Jalgaon, Aurangabad and Yavatmal, 2 each in Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Sangli, Sindhudurg, Latur and Akola, and 1 each in Osmanabad, Beed, Washim and Bhandara.