Mumbai records 27 Covid-19 cases, lowest in 2 years

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Mumbai on Monday reported 27 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest daily count since March 2020 when the pandemic began, but no fresh death linked to the infection, the city civic body said. With this, the tally of coronavirus infections in the financial capital jumped to 10,57,290, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,692, said a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin.

Mumbai saw less than 100 new Covid-19 cases for the 12th day in a row. Also, the city registered zero Covid-19 cases for the 13th time in March. Only once so far this month, the city has recorded death linked to Covid-19. The positivity rate of Mumbai, cases detected per 100 tests, was 0.25 per cent, the BMC said. With 38 more coronavirus patients recovering in the last 24 hours, the number of discharged cases jumped to 10,37,380, the bulletin said.

Mumbai now has 334 active Covid-19 cases and its coronavirus recovery was 98 per cent, as per the bulletin. The case doubling rate rose to 13,601 days, while the growth rate of Covid-19 cases between March 7 and 13 was 0.005 per cent, it said. In the last 24 hours, only five patients were hospitalised and one patient was put on oxygen support, it said.

Also, only 124 of the total 28,513 hospital beds earmarked for coronavirus patients are currently occupied in the city, according to the bulletin. Last year, Mumbai had reported the highest 11,163 daily cases on April 4 and most deaths at 90 on May 1 during the second wave of the pandemic. Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Monday reported 157 new coronavirus cases and one fresh death linked to the disease, while 298 more patients recovered from the infection, the state health department said.

With this, the state's overall tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 78,71,359, while the death toll increased to 1,43,753, the department said in a bulletin. As per the bulletin, the number of recovered cases in Maharashtra increased to 77,21,220 after 298 patients were discharged during the day, leaving the state with 2,382 active cases. The fatality rate in the state was 1.82 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 98.09 per cent.

78,71,359
Total no. of cases in Maharashtra

37
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

0
No. of deaths in city on Monday

38
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Monday

1,06,19,470
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

93,61,178
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

1,238
(No. of people who took first dose on Monday)

12,149
(No. of people who took second dose on Monday)

3,59,794
Total no. of booster doses administered so far

2,107
No. of booster Doses administered on Monday

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