As Maha Deaths Top 90,000, Higher Than Some EU Nations' Toll, City Cases Near 7L

With continuing high fatalities, Maharashtra on Tuesday crossed the grim milestone of 90,000 Covid-19 deaths. The state added nearly 10,000 deaths in the past 10 days.

- Bhavika Jain & Malathy Iyer

Maharashtra had 80,512 deaths on May 15, and on Tuesday, 601 were reported; another 536 were added after a week, taking the cumulative deaths to 90,349.

With this, Maharashtra has recorded more deaths than countries such as Germany and Spain.

Meanwhile, the daily additions continued to be under 30,000 for the sixth day in a row—24,136 new cases were added, taking the total to 56.2 lakh.

Mumbai is set to breach the 7 lakh mark in the number of Covid-19 cases since March 2020, and is on par with small European nations such as Switzerland, which has 6.9 lakh cases and 10,000-plus deaths so far.