Maharashtra records new high of Covid-19 deaths, over 2,000 new cases
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Mumbai: Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 76 Covid-19 deaths – the highest single-day surge – and 2,127 new cases, officials said here.
This amounts to a staggering three deaths every hour and around 89 new cases every hour. The state has been notching above 2K new patients consecutively since the past three days.
With 76 fatalities, the state death toll now stands at 1,325 and the total number of coronavirus patients increased from 35,058 on Monday to 37,136.
The health department said the state now has 26,164 active cases.
Of the total 76 deaths, 43 were recorded in Mumbai alone – the highest till date on a single-day – taking the city’s toll to 800 now, and the number of Covid-19 positive patients here shot up by 1,411 cases, again a new record – to touch 22,746 today.
Mumbai’s Dharavi slum alone continued to be a major hotspot, notching 26 new cases, taking the total number of patients to 1,353, and 56 deaths to date.
Besides Mumbai’s 43 deaths, there were 17 in Thane (Thane and Navi Mumbai), 6 in Pune, 3 in Akola, two each in Nagpur and Buldhana, and one each in Aurangabad, Dhule and Nashik.
On the positive side, as many as 1,202 fully cured patients returned home on Tuesday, taking the number of those discharged to 9,639.
So far, around 618 police personnel in the city – besides 600 more elsewhere in the state – are Covid-19 positive, but they have to wait for 7-8 hours before an ambulance is available.
As many as 15,178 health teams have carried out a survey of a population of around 63.2 lakhs in the state.
IANS
