Maharashtra sees decline in daily cases, death toll crosses 80k

Maharashtra, in a major relief, saw Covid-19 new infections decline, however, the state's deaths kept increasing to cross 81,000, though there was also an increase in the recovery rate, health officials said.

The state, so far the worst affected one in India, reported 974 deaths, pushing the death toll to 81,486 now.

The state hasn't crossed 50k mark since two weeks. On Sunday, the daily toll was reported at 34,389,taking the tally to to 3,78,452 now.

Mumbai's situation continued to improve, with the infections remaining below the 3K-level, but increasing to 1,535, taking the city tally to 687,830. Meanwhile, the city reported 60 more deaths, the total fatalities in the country's commercial capital went up to 14,224.

After three days, the state death rate worsened slightly from 1.51 per cent to 1.52 per cent now, though the number of active cases fell from 494,032 to 468,109.

Meanwhile 59,318 fully cured patients, again higher than the number of fresh infections, returned home, taking the total to 48,26,371, while the recovery rate further improved from 89.02 per cent to 89.74 per cent now.

The Mumbai circle - comprising Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts - recorded a fall in new cases, taking its case-load to 14,83,823, while with 152 more deaths, the toll rose to 25,788 now.

Meanwhile, the number of people sent to home isolation stood at 34,91,981 now, while those in institutional quarantine was 28,398.