With the reconciliation exercise continuing to play spoilsport, the daily Covid-19 deaths jumped to 1,966 on Saturday, as the health authorities added a staggering 1,606 old and unaccounted fatalities to the day’s tally of 360.
A day after the state recorded 2619 deaths – comprising 406 current fatalities and 2,213 previous unaccounted deaths, the daily deaths in Maharashtra jumped further to 1966.
However, the infections dropped from Friday’s tally of 11,766 to 10,697 cases on Saturday, while 14,910 patients were discharged from various hospitals after fully recovery.
The state health authorities have been adding the previous unaccounted deaths to the daily fatality almost on a day-to-day basis for nearly weeks now. Between May 1 and June 12, a whooping 29,962 deaths were recorded in the state, of which 14,097 were added to the State’s cumulative death tally, after reconciliation of figures.
During the last five days alone, 6148 deaths ( June 8-407, June 9-400, June 10-1,522, June 11-2,213 and June 12-1606 ) have been added to the state’s cumulative tally.
Meanwhile, with 1966 daily deaths reported on Saturday, the Covid-19 toll in the state jumped from 1,06,367 to 1,08,333.
Similarly, with 10,697 new infections reported on Saturday, the total number of cases in the state went up from 58,87,853 to 58,98,550.
As 14,910 patients were discharged from the hospitals across the state after full recovery, the total number of people discharged from the hospitals since the second week of March last year increased from 56,16,857 to 56,31,767. The recovery rate in the state rose from 95.40 per cent to 95.48 per cent.
The total “active cases” in the state dropped from 1,61,704 to 1,55,474. The fatality rate in the state went up from 1.81 per cent to 1.84 per cent.
Mumbai logged 18 deaths and 749 infections. The infections in the city remained below 1000 level in the country’s commercial capital for the 14th consecutive day.
With fresh deaths and infections, the Covid-19 toll in Mumbai increased from 15,079 to 15,097, while the infected cases went up from 7,14,216 to 7,14,965.