Mumbai records 83 new Covid-19 cases and one casualty

An elderly person gets his jab at Nair hospital. File pic

Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 257 fresh coronavirus cases, one fatality, and 178 recoveries, the state health department said. The lone fatality was reported in Mumbai after a gap of 18 days. The deceased was a senior citizen with comorbidity. With fresh cases, the state's COVID-19 tally rose to 81,32,170 and the toll to 1,48,387.

A day before the state had recorded 169 cases. Mumbai reported 83 fresh cases on Tuesday. The case fatality rate in the state stands at 1.82 per cent. Maharashtra is now left with 1,566 active cases after 178 patients recovered from the coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 79,82,217.

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The recovery rate in the state is 98.16 per cent. A total of 15,954 tests were conducted in the state in the past 24 hours, taking the number of samples examined so far to 8,52,68,825.

81,32,170
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

15,954
No of tests conducted in the state on tuesday

1
No of deaths in Mumbai on Tuesday

178
No of patients recovered and discharged in the state on Tuesday

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