MUMBAI: Even as the threat of a new variant looms, Covid-19 cases in November witnessed a 57% drop compared to October and 78% over September in Maharashtra.
Deaths also fell by 28% this month over the last and 56% compared to September. In terms of monthly tallies, November has been the lowest since last April when the pandemic had just begun. The state had recorded 10,201 cases and 779 deaths then.
In the current month, Maharashtra reported 25,277 cases, after registering 59,599 in September and 1,06,041 in October. Deaths declined from 1,654 in September to 1,013 in October to below 1,000 (725) in November.
On Sunday, the state recorded 832 new cases, the 11th day of seeing less than 1,000 new cases. Maharashtra's overall Covid burden has now reached 66,34,444. An addition of 33 deaths, a marginal rise from 17 on Saturday, has taken the toll to 1,40,941.
