Mumbai logs 112 new Covid-19 cases, zero deaths

A woman gets her booster shot at a camp set up on the zoo premises. File pic

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 112 new coronavirus cases and zero fatalities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. With this, its infection tally rose to 11,49,347, while the death toll stood at 19,726, the civic body said in its bulletin.

The new cases were detected from 7,643 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, which took the cumulative test count to 1,82,47,418. On Tuesday, 5,188 Covid-19 tests were conducted in the city. Mumbai's recovery count rose to 11,28,776 as 203 patients recuperated during the day, the bulletin said. The city has a recovery rate of 98.2 per cent. Of the 112 new Covid-19 cases, only 17 patients were symptomatic, while the remaining patients were asymptomatic, the bulletin said.

Also read: Maharashtra reports 640 new Covid-19 cases, five deaths

The overall growth rate of Covid-19 cases in the city is 0.013 per cent for the period between September 14 and 20, while the doubling rate of Covid-19 cases is 6,107 days. Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 640 new Covid-19 cases and five fatalities, which took its overall caseload to 81,17,024 and death toll to 1,48,319, the state health department said.

As compared to the previous day, the state's one-day infection count witnessed an increase of 90 cases as it had reported 550 cases along with two fatalities on Tuesday. Of the five deaths, Pune circle reported three and Mumbai circle two. The state's Covid-19 recovery count climbed to 79,64,655 as 801 patients recuperated from the infection during the day, the department said in its report.

Maharashtra has 4,050 active Covid-19 cases and of those, the highest number of 1,238 cases are in Pune, followed by 845 and 577 cases in Mumbai and Thane districts respectively.

81,17,024
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

0
No of deaths in Mumbai on Wednesday

203
Patients recovered and discharged in Mumbai on Wednesday

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