Covid-19: Mumbai logs 50 cases, zero fatalities

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Mumbai on Monday reported 50 fresh Coronavirus cases and zero fatality, the city civic body said. Mumbai's Covid-19 tally now stands at 10,57,879 while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,559, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) bulletin. On Sunday, Mumbai had reported 43 infections and one fatality. Significantly, Mumbai's daily Covid-19 cases remain below 100 since March 2 this year. Mumbai recorded zero Covid-19 fatalities on 24 of the 28 days, including Monday, this month.

Presently, the city has 290 active cases. The case positivity rate is 0.005 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 8,874 Covid-19 tests were carried out in Mumbai, taking the tally of samples examined so far to 1,65,85,155, the BMC said. With 28 patients discharged post-Covid-19 treatment, the total number of recoveries in Mumbai mounted to 10,38,009. Mumbai's recovery rate is 98 per cent, the bulletin said. The case doubling rate in the city is 15,798 days. The overall growth rate of cases for the period between March 21 to March 27 stood at 0.004 per cent, the bulletin said.

All 50 new Covid-19 patients are asymptomatic. None of them was hospitalised or on oxygen support. Only 14 of the total 26,228 hospital beds are currently occupied (by Covid-19 patients) in Mumbai, the BMC said. Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Monday reported 110 fresh Covid-19 cases and zero fatality, taking the tally of infections to 78,73,619, the state health department said. The death toll remained unchanged at 1,47,780, a health department report said.

Maharashtra is now left with 964 active cases in a total of 35 districts. With 72 patients discharged after Covid-19 treatment in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries in Maharashtra rose to 77,24,875. State's case recovery rate is 98.11 per cent and the fatality rate is 1.87 per cent. The positivity rate jumped to 0.006 per cent from 0.004 per cent recorded a day before. With 24,379 new coronavirus tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the total number of samples tested so far has gone up to 7,92,74,099.

78,73,619
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

61
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

0
No. of deaths in city on Monday

28
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Monday

1,06,53,000
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

94,54,717
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

4,118
(No. of people who took first dose on Monday)

8,935
(No. of people who took second dose on Monday)

3,95,959
Total no of booster doses administered so far

4,065
No of booster Doses administered on Monday

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