Covid-19: Mumbai reports 288 new cases, one fatality; 532 recover

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Mumbai on Sunday reported 288 fresh coronavirus cases and one fatality due to the viral infection, taking the tally to 10,54,050 and the death toll to 16,683, the city civic body said.

A total of 532 patients recovered, which raised the number of recoveries in Mumbai so far to 10,31,836, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a statement. Mumbai is now left with 2,667 active cases, it said. Of the 288 new cases, 88 per cent or 253 cases were asymptomatic while 35 patients were admitted to hospitals. 13 patients are on Oxygen support, the statement said. Of the total 36,889 beds in hospitals in Mumbai, 1,027 remained occupied (by Covid-199 patients).

With 39,938 new tests, the number of samples examined so far in Mumbai went up to 1,58,06,279, the BMC said. The case recovery rate of Mumbai stands at 98 per cent as of Sunday. The case doubling rate is 1,397 days. The city is free of active containment zones. Mumbai's case positivity rate is 0.7 per cent, BMC commissioner I S Chahal said.

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