Maha Covid cases zoom over 14 lakh, toll crosses 37,000

Mumbai, Oct 1 : Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths and cases dropped but the case tally shot above 14 lakh and the death toll crossed 37,000, while the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) remained grim with growing cases, health officials said here on Thursday.
The state witnessed 394 deaths on Thursday, lower than the peak of 515 and the death toll zoomed past 37,000, from 36,662 to 37,056 now.
The state recorded 16,476 new patients – though lower than the peak single-day tally of 24,886 – pushing up the total from 13,84,446 to 14,00,922 cases till date.
In a relief, the recovery rate also shot up – from 78.61 per cent to 78.84 per cent – while the current mortality (death) rate stood at 2.65 per cent on Thursday.
Against this, 16,104 fully recovered patients returned home taking up the total number of discharged patients from 10,88,322 to 11,04,426 till date – much higher than the 259,006 ‘active cases’ (ill) currently in the state.
As per the figures on Thursday, there was one death roughly every 3.6 minutes and 686 new cases added every hour to the state’s tally.