Maha Covid-19 deaths, cases drop; cure rate up

Mumbai, Oct 17 : Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths and new cases dropped on Saturday even as the recovery rate continued to be on the upswing, health officials said here.
The state witnessed 250 deaths on Saturday – less than half the compared with the peak of 515 and the state toll shot up from 41,502 to 41,965 now.
The state recorded 10,259 new cases – much lower than the peak single-day tally of 24,886 – and the state tally climbed from 15,76,062 to 15,86,321 cases till date.
In a great relief, the state recovery rate remained high, increasing from 85.03 per cent to 85.65 per cent – while the current mortality (death) rate stood at 2.65 per cent.
Against this, 14,238 fully recovered patients returned home – taking up the total number of discharged patients from 13,44,368 to 13,58,606 till date – much higher than the 185,270 active cases currently in the state.
As per Saturday’s figures, there was one death roughly every 5.7 minutes and 427 new cases added every hour to the state tally.