Maharashtra on Monday reported 686 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 19 fatalities, taking the tally in the state to 66,24,986 and the toll to 1,40,602, an official said.
He said Maharashtra has been witnessing less than 700 Covid-19 cases per day since the beginning of November, adding that Monday’s addition to the tally was lower than Sunday, while the fatality count was higher than the day earlier.
The discharge of 912 patients in the last 24 hours took the recovery count in Maharashtra to 64,68,791, leaving the state with 11,943 active cases. The number of people in home quarantine stood at 99,859 and those in an institutional quarantine is 1,016.
Maharashtra’s case recovery rate now stands at 97.64 per cent and the fatality rate is 2.12 per cent.
Surjitt Sahani
