Mumbai:The Mumbai region's COVID-19 cases shot above 51,000-mark on Sunday even as the state death toll reached 2,286, with 89 fatalities recorded on May 31.
Sunday's toll includes a whopping 70 deaths in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region alone - the worst-hit in the country, besides 2,487 new positive cases recorded in the state.
This comes to roughly one death every 16 minutes, and an average of 104 new cases notched every hour, in the state.
Maharashtra has been recording 75-plus fatalities and new patients over 2,000 daily for the past six consecutive days, with the last highest figure of 3,041 infections on May 24.
With 89 fatalities, the state death toll has touched 2,286 while the total number of coronavirus patients increased from Saturday's 65,168 to 67,655 on Sunday.
The health department said, of the total number of cases declared till date, 36,031 were active, an increase of 1,150 over Saturday's 34,881.
The state has notched a recovery rate of 43.35 per cent and a mortality (death) rate of 3.37 per cent, with the patient doubling time improving to 17.5 days over last week's 11.3 days, against the national average of 15.7 days.
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Of the total 89 fatalities on Sunday, 52 were recorded in Mumbai alone, taking the city deaths up from Saturday's 1,227 to 1,279 now, while the number of COVID-19 positive patients here shot up by 1,244 cases to touch 39,686 now.
Besides Mumbai's 52 deaths, there were 18 fatalities in Thane (Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali), 9 in Pune, 6 in Nashik (Malegaon), 2 Solapur, and one each in Osmanabad and Yavatmal.
The victims comprised 46 men and 43 women, and nearly 63 per cent of them suffered from other serious ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, heart problems and asthma.
On the positive side, a total of 1,248 fully cured patients returned home on Sunday, taking the number of those discharged from 28,081 to 29,329.