COVID-19: Deaths on the rise as Maharashtra reports 132 over 24 hours

A civic health worker takes a swab sample of a long-distance passenger at Dadar station on Sunday. Pic/Ashish Raje

While the state saw a slight drop in the number of daily cases, the city continued to register over 3,000 fresh infections. On Tuesday, Mumbai registered 3,552 cases and recorded a test positivity rate of 15 per cent. The state reported 28,699 cases and 132 deaths over the past 24 hours. The city saw eight deaths while the rest of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) saw 18.

The city's test positivity rate has also reached 15 per cent from 3 per cent in the first week of February and the recovery rate has reduced to 90 per cent. With the recovery of 1,203 patients on the same day, the city now has 27,672 active cases. The city had 5,000 active patients a month ago, on February 12. It also reported eight fresh deaths over the past 24 hours. All of them were above 60 years of age and six patients had comorbidities.

The MMR reported 6,870 cases, including the ones in Mumbai. Other cities like Thane recorded 814 cases, Navi Mumbai 496 and Kalyan-Dombivli 720. The MMR, excluding Mumbai, saw 18 deaths, out of which five each were reported in Kalyan-Dombivli and Vasai-Virar. Out of the state's 28,699 fresh cases, Pune circle reported 6,366, Akola circle 1,844, Nashik 4,319 and Nagpur 3,745. Pune reported 24 deaths, Nagpur circle recorded 21, Nashik 21 while Latur and Akola registered 16 deaths each. The state's recovery rate has dropped below 89 per cent, which had reached 95 per cent a month back. A total of 13,165 patients were discharged across Maharashtra, and the number of active cases increased to 2.30 lakh.

15,771 tests at ward level
After receiving a target of conducting 47,800 antigen tests at malls, railway stations, bus depots, markets etc, only 15,771 tests were conducted at ward level on Monday. The highest number of tests (2,582) was conducted in L ward comprising Kurla, followed by 1,824 in Bandra East and 1,600 in Andheri East. The BMC has not provided information on how many tests were conducted apart from those done at crowded places. But health officials at the ward level said that the percentage of positive patients was very low.

25,33,026
Tal No. of cases in Maharashtra

6,870
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

8
No. of deaths in city on Tuesday (All of them were above 60 years of age and six patients had comorbidities)

1,203
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Tuesday

8,09,276
(Total no. of people administered the first vaccine dose)

1,29,912
(No. of people who have taken their second vaccine dose so far)

32,122
(No. of people who took their first vaccine dose on Tuesday)

4,998
(No. of people who took their second vaccine dose on Tuesday)