Mumbai logs 60 Covid-19 cases, Maharashtra sees 460

A swab sample being collected at Dadar station on Tuesday. Pic/Suresh Karkera

Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 60 fresh COVID-19 cases, a day after adding 38 infections, taking the tally to 10,57,016, a civic official said.

The COVID-19 death toll remained unchanged at 16,692 with no fresh fatality reported during the day, the official said.

The daily COVID-19 cases had remained below 50 on Monday (38) and Sunday (46), when the daily addition to the tally in the metropolis had gone below 50 for the first time after April 2020.

A total of 10,36,974 people (98 per cent of the COVID-19 caseload) have been discharged post-recovery in the city, including 77 on Tuesday, leaving the metropolis with 467 active cases, the official said.

As per Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation data, 12,165 samples were examined in the last 24 hours, which took the cumulative number of tests to 1,63,16,089.

It also revealed that Mumbai is free of sealed buildings or COVID containment zone at present.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 460 fresh COVID-19 cases and five fatalities that raised the tally of infections to 78,69,498 and the toll to 1,43,745, a state health department official said.

The state had reported 225 coronavirus cases, the lowest after April 18, 2020, and zero fatality, on Monday.

Maharashtra is now left with 3,209 active cases, the official said.

Of the 460 cases, Pune city logged 133, while Mumbai recorded 60 infections, the official said. Among the eight administrative circles in Maharashtra, Pune reported 238 fresh cases, Mumbai 92, Nashik 52, Nagpur 28, Kolhapur 17, Aurangabad 16, Akola nine and Latur eight.

Pune reported three fatalities due to COVID-19 and Akola two during the day, while no deaths due to the infection were recorded from the rest of the state, he said, adding that the fatality rate now stands at 1.82 per cent. At least 53,527 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the number of tests conducted so far in Maharashtra to 7,83,67,636, the official said.

With 718 patients getting discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, the count of recoveries has reached 77,18,541 and the recovery rate stood at 98.08 per cent.

78,69,498 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
92 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on tuesday
60 patients Recovered and discharged in city on tuesday

1,06,13,086 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
93,02,356 (No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
1,389 (No. of people who took first dose on tuesday)
13,517 (No. of people who took second dose on tuesday)
0 Total no. of booster doses administered so far
1,893 No. of booster Doses administered on tuesday

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