MUMBAI: Reconciliation of deaths in Maharashtra continued for the 28th day as 2,288 ‘old’ deaths were added on Sunday, the highest so far since the exercise began.
Between May 17 and Sunday, the state has reconciled 17,724 unreported deaths, with 2,288, 1,606, 2,213 and 1,522 fatalities added daily over the past four days.
In the last 28-days, in fact, fewer new deaths (11,894) have been added compared to reconciled figures, pushing the state’s cumulative Covid-19 toll to 1,11,104 and the case fatality ratio back to nearly 2%.
On Sunday, Maharashtra recorded 483 ‘new’ deaths and 2,288 backlog fatalities.
It, however, appears that even the deaths reported daily are not so current as many have occurred at least a week ago.
Across India, undercounting of deaths has become a major debate as states like Bihar, MP, Goa and Punjab addi-ng previous unreported deat-hs.
District officials from Mah-arashtra told TOI that they have got orders to revisit their death figures and have been working on it.
Surprisingly, Mumbai, that has so far claimed to have no lag in data reported, added 67 unreported deaths.
The state continued to see a fall in daily cases though.
It added 10,442 new cases, taking the total caseload to 59,08,992, closer to the 60-lakh mark.
Mumbai too continued to see a decline with 695 new cases reported on Sunday, taking the cumulative caseload to 7,15,660.
Nineteen deaths reported on Sunday took the city’s toll to 15,183.
Active cases in the state and city have increased to 1,55,588 and 18,166, respectively.
Western Maharashtra and Konkan regions remain a cause for concern.
Satara reported 65 deaths on Sunday, highest in the state in a day, and 823 new cases, while Palghar and Kolhapur registered 53 deaths each and 211 and 1,132 daily cases, respectively.
Kolhapur is the only district which reported new cases in four digits.