Covid-19: 846 new cases in Mumbai; 13,840 across Maharashtra

A BMC worker collects a swab sample of a rail passenger at Dadar station on Friday. Pic/Suresh Karkera

Mumbai on Friday reported 846 new Covid-19 cases along with seven Coronavirus-related fatalities. The city's overall toll has increased to 16,654, showed data shared by the BMC.

The tally of infections in the city rose to 10,50,194 and death toll to 16,654.

On the second day in a row, the city reported less than 1,000 Covid-19 cases. On Thursday, Mumbai had reported 827 new cases and seven fatalities.

The positivity rate (number of infections found per 100 tests), fell to 1.90 per cent from 2.29 per cent a day before.

In the last 24 hours, 44,323 Covid-19 tests, nearly 8,000 more than the previous day, were carried out in the city, taking the tally of tests conducted so far to 1,54,67,411.

With 1,297 patients recovering during the day, the tally of recoveries jumped to 10,23,589.

The city's rate of recovery is 97 per cent.

The period taken for the caseload to double improved to 662 days, while the growth rate of cases for the period between January 28 to February 3 was 0.10 per cent.

Presently, Mumbai has 7,135 active Covid-19 patients.

As much as 87 per cent or 735 out of 846 new patients found on Friday were asymptomatic. Only 111 patients were hospitalized in 24 hours, with 26 of them put on oxygen support.

Also, only 1,691 of the total 37,211 hospital beds reserved for Covid-19 patients are occupied in the city.

Presently three buildings in the city are sealed for high number of active cases on the premises.

On January 7, 2022, Mumbai had reported the highest ever 20,971 cases.

The state logged 13,840 new cases, and 81 deaths in the past 24 hours, while 27,891 more patients recovered from the infection the state health department's data showed.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region registered 1,717 infections and 21 deaths. Panvel and Navi Mumbai reported 112 and 134 cases respectively.

While Raigad saw 160 cases, Vasai-Virar had 38 cases and Thane Municipal Corporation had 142 cases.

In the MMR, Thane reported 7 COVID deaths, while Navi Mumbai and Kalyan-Dombivli saw two deaths each.

77,82,640 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
1,717 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
7 No. of deaths in city on Friday (Six were comorbid and above the age of 60 years. One was in the 40-60 years category)
1,297 Patients Recovered and discharged in city on Friday

1,04,94,053 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
87,38,329 (Total no. of people administered the second dose)
4,748 (No. of people who took first dose on Friday)
11,439 (No. of people who took second dose on Friday)
2,49,318 (Total no. of booster doses administered so far)
8,028 (No. of booster doses administered on Friday)