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MUMBAI: Maharashtra is likely to cross the grim milestone of a total of 1 lakh Covid deaths on Sunday, with only seven countries (including India) having a higher number of deaths during the pandemic. Maharashtra’s Covid toll would be closest to France, which has recorded 1.09 lakh deaths so far.
On Saturday, when the state registered its lowest single-day case count (13,659) in 87 days or nearly 3 months (since March 10, when 13,659 cases were registered), 741 deaths were added to the toll. Of these, only 300 deaths were registered on Saturday, while the remaining 441 were deaths that occurred over a week ago. The state thus had a toll of 99,512 deaths on Saturday.
Maha: Covid toll crosses 87K-mark, but new infections drop
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Maharashtra s Covid rage cools, but active cases increase. Image Source: IANS News
Mumbai, May 22 : Maharashtras Covid death toll shot past the 87,000-mark on Saturday though new infections dropped and remained below the 30,000 level, health officials said.
Compared to with the peak of 1,263 deaths reported on Friday, the state s fatalities dropped to 682 on Saturday, taking its overall death toll to 87,300, the worst in the country.
The number of fresh cases remained below the 30,000-mark at 26,133, taking the state s Covid tally to 55,53,225 till now.
In Mumbai, 1,268 new cases took the city s Covid tally to 695,483 till date, after touching the highest daily spike of 11,206 cases on April 4 last month, while 52 fatalities mounted its Covid death toll to 14,516.