Maha Covid-19 further eases, deaths drop to May levels (ROUNDUP)

Mumbai, Oct. Oct 26 : Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths dropped below the 100-mark for the first time in more than five months and the situation remained positive with falling cases, health officials said here on Monday.
The state witnessed just 84 deaths – compared with the peak of 515 (on Sep. 15), and is lower than the previous low of 97 (May 26) – and the state fatalities shot up from 43,264 to 43,348 now.
The state recorded 3,645 new cases – less than one-third compared with the peak single-day tally of 24,886 (Sep. 11), and the state tally jumped from 16,45,020 to 16,48,665 cases till date.
The state recovery rate increased from 88.08 per cent to 89.02 per cent – while the current mortality (death) rate stood at 2.63 per cent.
Simultaneously, another chunk of 9.905 fully recovered patients returned home – taking up the total number of discharged patients from 14,60,755 to 14,70,660 till date – much higher than the 134,137 ‘active cases’ (ill) currently in the state.
As per Monday’s figures, there was one death roughly every 17 minutes and 152 new cases added every hour to the state tally.