Covid: Mumbai deaths drop again, cases remain high (Roundup)

Mumbai, Oct 3 : For the second time this week, Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths plummeted below the 300-mark though new cases continued to remain in the higher ranges, health officials said here on Saturday.
The state witnessed 278 deaths on Saturday, lower than the peak of 515 recorded on September 15, taking its death toll to 37,758. The previous low of 180 fatalities was registered on September 28.
The state recorded 14,348 new cases on Saturday, nearly 10,000 lower than the peak single-day tally of 24,886 cases recorded on September 11, pushing up the state’s overall Covid tally to 14,30,861.
In a relief, the state’s recovery rate also shot up for the third day – from 78.91 per cent to 79.03 per cent – while the current mortality rate stood at 2.64 per cent on Saturday.
Against this, 16,835 fully recovered patients returned home, taking up the total number of discharged patients to 11,34,555 till date, much higher than the 258,108 active cases currently present in the state.
As per the figures released on Saturday, there was one death roughly every 5.17 minutes and 598 new cases added every hour to the state’s tally.