Chinese authorities said some of the latest victims were evacuees who died when buildings used as shelters collapsed.
The death toll rose after rescuers found 41 more bodies in Fuding, a coastal city in Fujian province, pushing the community death toll to 138, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Sunday.
In the inland province of Jiangxi, an elderly couple were swept away on Friday as they checked their farmland during the storm, Xinhua said.
It said one member of the couple was dead and the other missing.
On Sunday, residents of the southeast coast were clearing away the debris of wrecked houses.
Much of the area is still recovering from Tropical Storm Bilis, which killed more than 600 people last month.
Hardest-hit by Saomai was the coastal city of Wenzhou, where at least 81 people were killed after the storm hit late on Thursday with winds up to 270kph, reportedly destroying more than 50,000 houses, sinking more than 1,000 fishing boats and blacking out six cities.
Buildings collapse
Cangnan county on Wenzhou's outskirts suffered 43 deaths, some of them in the collapse of two- to four-storey residential buildings of reinforced concrete that were thought to be safe in high wind, said a spokesman for the Communist Party committee.
The county evacuated 100,000 people in advance of the storm, said the spokesman, who would give only his surname, Huang.
"Some people were killed because after they moved to friends' or relatives' homes, those homes collapsed," Huang said. "Other people were killed during the evacuation because billboards, trees or power poles fell on them."
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The coastal city of Wenzhou is among the hardest hit cities |