12 April,2023 08:42 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Mumbai on Wednesday reported as many as 320 new cases of Covid-19. The addition of the fresh cases took the total tally of infections in the city to 11,59,545, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a health bulletin.
The city has been witnessing a sudden spike in the daily cases of coronavirus in the month of April.
Two deaths was reported on April 12. As per the health bulletin, the deaths included - A 50-year-old male with chronic lung disease and a 81-year-old male with Covid Pneumonia.
The recovery count increased by 219 more patients to touch the total number of recoveries to 1,138,216, the bulletin said.
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The city now has an active caseload of 1,577 patients, it further said.
According to the data in the bulletin, Mumbai's overall growth rate of cases between April 5 and April 11 was 0.0171 per cent, and the recovery rate stood at 98.2 per cent.
So far, 188,15,114 Covid-19 tests have been conducted in the city, including 2,196 samples taken in the past 24 hours, as per civic data.