18 July,2023 07:03 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Maharashtra reported 11 new Covid-19 cases and zero death, as per the state govt data.
The health bulletin released by the state govt also informed that 14 patients recovered and got discharged from the hospital.
Overall, 80,21,388 patients have been recovered in the state to date.
"The case fatality rate in the state is 1.81 per cent," said the state health department official.
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Out of 8,73,80,763 laboratory samples 81,70,023 have tested positive (9.35 per cent) for Covid-19 until today.
"At present dominant variant of Covid is Omicron XBB.1.16. Total 1716 cases were found to be infected with this variant. There were 19 deaths reported among the cases of this variant," stated the release.
"Since January 1, 2023, 126 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. 72.22 per cent of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 84 per cent of the deceased had comorbidities, 16 per cent did not have any comorbidity," added the release.
Maharashtra presently has 79 active cases.
