531 more test positive for novel Coronavirus in Mumbai

A health worker collects a swab sample of a passenger for rapid antigen test, during a COVID-19 screening at Dadar station on Sunday. Pic/Shadab Khan

Both the number of daily COVID-19 tests and new cases in the city dropped on Sunday. Mumbai confirmed 531 more infections after conducting 14,542 tests. Across the state, state health department officials recorded 3,081 new cases and 50 casualties. Of the 50 deaths confirmed on Sunday, seven were from the city, of which five patients had comorbidities, one was aged below 40 years and six were 60-plus. Across state, 14 deaths were reported in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and 17 in Nagpur circle.

In the state, the MMR, including Mumbai, recorded 992 of the 3,081 COVID-19 cases. Except Mumbai, all other cities in the MMR reported less than 100 cases each. Pune circle and Nashik circle registered 638 and 481 cases, respectively. Meanwhile, the test positivity rate (TPR) in the city stands at 3.7 per cent, a little higher than Saturday's 3.4 per cent that was the lowest since the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in the country.

The cumulative number of COVID-19 cases reached 19,90,759 and the recovery rate stabilised at 94.8 per cent. Across Maharashtra, 2,342 patients were discharged on Sunday after full recovery, including 715 in Mumbai. As of now, the state has nearly 52,000 active cases, including 6,772 in the city. The recovery rate of Mumbai has stabilised at 94 per cent.

19,90,759
Total No. of cases in Maharashtra

992
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

7
No. of deaths in city today (Five patients had comorbidities, one of them was aged below 40, and six were 60-plus)

715
Patients recovered and discharged in city today