Mumbai:Although Maharashtra’s Covid-19 daily infections continued to slide down but deaths remained high and the state toll raced past 94K-mark, health officials said here on Saturday.
Compared with the 973 deaths on Friday, the state reported 832 fatalities on Saturday, (comprising 443 fresh and 389 previous fatalities) – compared with the peak of 1,320 deaths (May 23) – pulling up the toll above the 94K-mark, from 93,198 to 94,030 now, the worst in the country.
The number of fresh cases remained below the 25K-level – and fell from 20,740 on Friday to 20,295 on Saturday, compared with the record peak of 68,631 (April 18), and the state tally catapulted past the 57-lakh mark, from 56,92,920 to 57,13,215 now.
In Mumbai, the new infections went above the 1K-level, from 924 on Friday to 1,038 today – and the city tally shot up from 702,522 to 703,560 till date, after touching the highest daily spike of 11,206 cases (April 4).
The deaths for the day fell from 30 on Friday to 25 on Saturday, and the total fatalities in the country’s commercial capital went up from 14,750 to 14,775 now – the highest in India.
