Thane, Mar 03 With 607 new covid positive cases in the last 24 hours, a rally spiked to 66,092, an official said today.

While four death cases, a tally surged to 6280.
The mortality rate was 2.36 per cent, he added.
So far, 2,53,572 patients have recuperated from the infection, which took the recovery rate to 95.29 per cent. There were 6,240 active cases in the district at present, the official said.

In neighbouring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count has gone up to 46,059 while the death toll is 1,205 he said. (UNI)