Covid-19: Mumbai logs 139 cases, highest since February 23

People arrive at Mumbai airport on Thursday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

Mumbai on Thursday reported 139 new Coronavirus cases, the highest daily count since February 23. No death linked to the infection was reported in the financial capital, the city civic body said.

With this, the city's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 10,61,177, while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,563, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a bulletin.

For the third consecutive day, Mumbai has logged over 120 COVID-19 cases, while it has registered infections in three digits for the ninth time in May so far.

The metropolis had logged 124 COVID-19 cases, but no fresh fatalities on Wednesday.

At 139, the city has witnessed the highest daily cases since February 23, when it had logged 168 infections.

Among the new cases, eight were symptomatic and these patients were hospitalised for treatment, while only one of them was put on oxygen support, the bulletin said.

The number of recoveries jumped to 10,40,754 after 130 more patients recovered from the infection, the civic body said.

Currently, the city has 860 active COVID-19 cases.

Mumbai's Coronavirus recovery rate was 98 per cent, while the growth rate of infections between May 5 and May 11 stood at 0.010 per cent, the bulletin said.

The case doubling rate in Mumbai was 6,116 days.

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 231 fresh cases, more than half of them from Mumbai, and one more death linked to the infection, the state health department said.

With this, the state's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 78,80,074, while the death toll increased to 1,47,851, the department said in a bulletin.

Mumbai recorded 139 cases in the last 24 hours, accounting for more than 50 per cent of the new patients in the state.

The state's sole death due to the respiratory disease in the day was reported from Solapur district.

Maharashtra's coronavirus fatality rate stood at 1.87 per cent, while the recovery rate was 98.11 per cent.

Ratnagiri, Sangli, Nandurbar, Aurangabad, Latur, Osmanabad, Akola, Buldhana, Yavatmal, Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli districts have zero active cases, the bulletin said.

It said 208 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours.

78,80,074 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
170 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on thursday
130 patients Recovered and discharged in city on thursday

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