Mumbai Covid-19 cases stay below 500 for third day

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For the third day in a row, Mumbai reported under 500 COVID-19 cases at 441 on Wednesday. However, the number of fatalities jumped to nine, a day after recording only one COVID-19 death, as per the bulletin released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Mumbai's case positivity rate now stands at 1.16 per cent, the BMC said, adding that Mumbai is now left with 4,096 active cases. Of the 441 new cases, 85 per cent or 376 patients are asymptomatic.

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Eight of the nine who died had comorbidities. One person was between 40-60 years of age. Eight patients were above 60 years.

In the past 24 hours, only 65 patients were hospitalised and 24 are on oxygen support, it said.

A passenger's temperature is checked at Dadar station on Wednesday. Pic/Ashish Raje

A total of 37,800 tests were conducted in Mumbai in the last 24 hours, 3,000 more than Monday, taking the number of samples tested so far to 1,56,51,624, it said.

With 1,115 COVID-19 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries in Mumbai has jumped to 10,29,006.

Mumbai's case recovery rate now stands at 98 per cent. The doubling rate now stands at 840 days.

Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 7,142 new cases, 1,035 more than the day ago, while the death toll rose by 92, the health department said.

With the fresh cases, the state's cumulative infection count rose to 78,23,385. The overall recovery count in Maharashtra grew to 75,93,291 after 20,222 patients were discharged during the day, leaving the state with 82,893 active cases, the department said in its bulletin.

No new cases of the Omicron variant of the virus were reported.

The fatality rate in the state is 1.83 per cent, while the recovery rate is 97.06 per cent, it said. The MMR reported 966 cases.

78,23,385 (Total no. of cases in Maharashtra)
966 (Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours)
9 (No. of deaths in city on Wednesday) (Eight of the nine who died had comorbidities. One person was between 40-60 years of age. Eight persons were above 60 years)
1,115 (Patients recovered and discharged in city on Wednesday)

1,05,26,142 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
88,25,003 (No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
8,759 (No. of people who took first dose on Wednesday)
24,059 (No. of people who took second dose on Wednesday)
2,81,733 (Total no. of booster doses administered so far)
6,959 (No. of booster doses administered on Wednesday)