Mumbai sees 50 new Covid-19 cases, no fresh fatality

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Mumbai on Tuesday reported 50 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to 10,57,340 but no fresh fatality due to the infection was recorded, the city civic body said. Notably, on 14 out of 15 days this month, Mumbai has logged zero fatality due to Covid-19, while on the 13th day in a row on Tuesday, the city saw less than 100 new cases, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) spokesperson said.

Earlier this month, Mumbai had reported a single fatality due to Covid-19 only on March 6. A day earlier, Mumbai had logged 27 coronavirus cases. With 60 Covid-19 patients being discharged after treatment, the number of recoveries in Mumbai went up to 10,37,440 at the recovery rate of 98 per cent, as per the bulletin.

A total of 12,273 Covid-19 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, around 2,000 more compared to Sunday, taking the number of samples tested so far in Mumbai to 1,64,10,407, it said. Mumbai's case positivity rate now stands at 0.004 per cent. The case doubling rate of Mumbai jumped to 14,508 days, while the overall growth rate of Covid-19 cases for the period between March 8 to March 14 stood at 0.005 per cent.

Presently, Mumbai has 324 active Covid-19 cases. Around 91 per cent or 46 out of 50 new patients were asymptomatic, the BMC said. In the last 24 hours, only four patients were hospitalised and three of them are on medical oxygen support. Also, only 108 of the total 28,468 hospital beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients in Mumbai, according to the bulletin.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 207 new coronavirus infections and four pandemic-related deaths, the state health department said. It took the tally of Covid-19 cases in the state to 78,71,566, and death toll to 1,43,757. The number of recovered cases increased to 77,21,510 after 290 patients were discharged from hospital or recovered at home. There are 2,295 active cases in the state now. Coronavirus case fatality rate is 1.82 per cent, while recovery rate is 98.09 per cent.

78,71,566
Total no. of cases in Maharashtra

67
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

1,06,20,543
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

93,70,689
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

1,031
(No. of people who took first dose on Tuesday)

9,520
(No. of people who took second dose on Tuesday)

3,62,201
Total no. of booster doses administered so far

2,338
No. of booster Doses administered on Tuesday

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