Mumbai, Aug 22 : For the second time in 48 hours, Maharashtra equalled its own record of 14,492 new coronavirus cases, though the daily death toll
Mumbai, Aug 22: For the second time in 48 hours, Maharashtra equalled its own record of 14,492 new coronavirus cases, though the daily death toll plummeted below the 300-mark for the first time in a week, health officials said here on Saturday. With 14,492 new cases, the state’s total tally shot up to 671,942. As 297 more COVID-19 patients succumbed to the disease, the state’s death toll shot up to 21,995. Both figures are the highest in the country. There was one death roughly every 5 minutes and a staggering 604 new cases added every hour to the state’s corona tally, though the load of deaths is gradually shifting to non-metro areas. The state’s recovery rate dipped slightly from 71.62 per cent to 71.45 per cent, while the mortality rate was 3.27 per cent on Saturday. Against this,9,241 fully recovered patients returned home, taking the total discharges to 480,114 till date, considerably higher than the 169,516 active cases in Maharashtra.
