Covid-19: Mumbai logs 44 cases, one death; active tally at 341

A woman is being administered a COVID-19 vaccine at BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai Central on Friday. Pic/Ashish Raje

Mumbai on Friday recorded 44 new cases of coronavirus and one casualty due to the infection, which raised its tally to 10,58,667 and toll to 19,562, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

This is the second day in a row and third time this month that the city has reported a fatality. At least 48 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, taking the count of recoveries to 10,38,764, leaving the city with 341 active cases, the official said.

The positivity rate now stands at 0.005 per cent and the recovery rate is at 98 per cent, he said, adding that the doubling rate of cases stands at 14,960 days.

In the past 24 hours, 7,696 swab samples were tested in the city, taking the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted so far to 1,67,64,859.

As per the bulletin, of the latest cases, 42 patients were asymptomatic and two were admitted to hospitals, while only 13 of the total 26,143 hospital beds are occupied in the city.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Friday recorded 69 new coronavirus cases and one pandemic-related death, the health department said.

The number of active cases in the state slipped to 681.

The caseload rose to 78,75,620 and death toll reached 1,47,827.

On Thursday, Maharashtra had reported 103 new infections and five fatalities.

The districts of Jalgaon, Nandurbar, Hingoli, Osmanabad, Buldhana, Yavatmal, Wardha and Bhandara recorded zero active cases. With 132 patients recovered since previous evening, the total of recovered cases rose to 77,27,112. The recovery rate in the state stands at 98.11 per cent. The case fatality rate stands at 1.87 per cent. With 23,967 coronavirus tests conducted since Thursday evening, the tally of samples tested so far rose to 7,98,25,249.

78,75,620 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
9 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
1 No. of deaths in city on Friday
48 patients Recovered and discharged in city on Friday

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