Covid-19: Mumbai records 1 death after a fortnight; sees 704 cases

A man gets an anti-Covid shot, at Nair hospital, on Wednesday. Pic/Ashish Raje

On the second day in a row, Mumbai recorded more than 700 new Coronavirus infections on Thursday. The city also witnessed a death on account of the infection after more than a fortnight, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) bulletin.

Mumbai logged 704 new Covid-19 cases, 35 fewer than the previous day, taking the tally of cases in the city to 10,67,245. With one fatality, the death toll rose to 19,567. A day before, the city had witnessed 739 new cases, highest since February 4, but no fatality. No pandemic-related fatality had been reported in the city after May 15.

The number of active cases surged over the 3,000 mark and the caseload doubling rate slipped below 2,000 days to 1,765. Mumbai now has 3,324 active Covid-19 cases. As many as 9,544 Covid-19 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours. Out of 704 new patients, 671 are asymptomatic and only 33 symptomatic patients have been admitted in hospitals. Of these, five are on oxygen support, the bulletin said.

The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients is 98 per cent, according to the bulletin. With the discharge of 349 recovered patients in the last 24 hours, the number of recovered patients climbed to 10,44, 354. Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 1,045 new cases and one death. The tally of active cases in the state also rose to 4,559.

On Wednesday, Maharashtra had recorded 1,081 new cases and zero fatalities. The increase in cases on Wednesday was the highest since February 24. The state's case fatality rate stands at 1.78 per cent. As many as 517 people recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of recovered patients in the state to 77,36,792. The recovery rate stands at 98.07 per cent.

78,89,212
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

920
Total no of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

1
No of deaths in city on Thursday

349
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Thursday

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