Maharashtra on Tuesday notched a record 97 deaths, up by 21 over the previous high of 76 fatalities recorded last Tuesday (May 19), health officials said here.
The latest death toll includes a whopping 72 deaths in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) alone, besides 2, 091 new cases which were reported from across the state on Tuesday.
This comes to roughly one death every 15 minutes, and an average 87 new cases recorded every hour.
The state has been recording 50 - plus fatalities and over 2, 000 new patients daily for the past 10 days now.
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