Maharashtra Covid-19 deaths, new cases spike again

Mumbai, Oct 20 : After a low for two days, Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths and new cases again shot up though the state’s fatality rate remained stable, health officials said here on Tuesday, The state witnessed 213 more deaths – nearly half compared with the peak of 515 (September 15) — taking the states’ death toll to 42,453.
A total of 8,151 new cases – almost one third compared with a single-day peak tally of 24,886 (Sep 11) — increased Maharashtra’s total tally to 16,09,516 cases.
In another positive development, its recovery rate continued to remain high but dropped from Monday’s 86.48 per cent to 86.05 per cent, while the current mortality (death) rate remained stable at 2.64 per cent.
Simultaneously, 7,429 recovered patients returned home, taking total discharged patients to 13,92,308 — much higher than 174,265 active cases currently in the state.
As per Tuesday’s figures, there was one death roughly every 6.7 minutes and 340 new cases added every hour to the state tally.