16 August,2023 08:09 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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On Wednesday, Mumbai recorded four new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 11,64,155.
According to the data shared by BMC, there is no new death linked to the infection was registered in Mumbai today.
The death toll remained unchanged at 19,776.
"As many as 133 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 1,89,19,977," said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Around 10 patients recovered on August 16 taking the number of recoveries to 11,44,322.
Presently, Mumbai has 47 active Covid-19 cases.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported nine new cases. As per the health bulletin, no deaths were reported in the state today.
14 patients discharged today 80,21,733 Covid-19 patients discharged after full recovery until today.
The recovery rate in the state is 98.18 per cent and the case fatality rate in the state is 1.81 per cent.
Out of 8,74,55,449 laboratory samples 81,70,373 have been tested positive (9.34 per cent) for Covid-19 until today.
At present dominant variant of Covid is Omicron XBB.1.16. Total 1733 cases were found to be infected with this variant. There were 19 deaths reported among the cases of this variant.
Since January 1, 2023, 127 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. 72.44 per cent of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 84 per cent of the deceased had comorbidities, 16 per cent did not have any comorbidity.
