Mumbai: No new death for second day, but Covid-19 cases rise to 255

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Mumbai did not record any death linked to Covid-19 for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, while cases remained above 200, the BMC said. The city's test positivity rate (TPR) stands at 0.83 per cent. With the new cases, the infection tally in the metropolis rose to 10,54,732, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,685, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its bulletin.

In the last 24 hours, 30,371 Covid-19 tests, around 5,000 more as compared to the previous day, were carried out in the city and 255 people tested positive. On Tuesday, the city had reported 235 new cases. The metropolis does not have any sealed building and containment zones for the seventh consecutive day. As 439 more patients recovered and got discharge during the day, the recovery count grew to 10,33,071 and the city's rate of recovery is 98 per cent, the health bulletin said.

Mumbai's case doubling rate jumped to 2,205 days, while the overall growth rate of Covid-19 cases for the period between February 9 and 15 is 0.03 per cent. Presently, Mumbai has 2,115 active Covid-19 patients. Around 91 per cent means 232 out of 235 new patients are asymptomatic. In the last 24 hours, only 23 patients were hospitalised and only nine patients are on oxygen support. Also, only 936 of the total 36,436 hospital beds are occupied in the city, the bulletin said.

111 new Omicron cases

Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 2,748 new cases, including 111 of the Omicron variant, and 41 fresh fatalities linked to the infection, the health department said. On Tuesday, the state had recorded 2,831 infections and 35 fatalities.

Of the 111 Omicron infections, Ahmednagar reported 21, Navi Mumbai 19, Jalna and Yavatmal 15 each, Aurangabad 10, Nagpur and Mumbai nine each, Thane Municipal Corporation six and Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation three, among others. The department said 5,806 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours.

78,50,494
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

549
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

00
No. of deaths in city on Wednesday

439
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Wednesday

1,05,62,738
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

89,50,767
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

3,189
(No. of people who took first dose on Wednesday)

16,406
(No. of people who took second dose on Wednesday)

3,12,786
Total no. of booster doses administered so far

2,994
No. of booster Doses administered on Wednesday