Mumbai sees fewer than 500 Covid-19 cases for the second day

A passenger is tested at Dadar station on Tuesday. Pic/Ashish Raje

Mumbai logged fewer than 500 cases the second day in a row on Tuesday. The city reported 447 new Covid-19 cases and only one fresh fatality on Tuesday, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin.

The city's positivity rate is 1.29 per cent. In the past 24 hours, 34,543 Covid-19 tests were conducted, nearly 5,000 fewer than the previous day. At last 798 patients were discharged. The city's rate of recovery is 98 per cent, as per the bulletin. The doubling rate improved to 808 days.

Presently, Mumbai has 4,783 active Covid-19 patients. Around 85 per cent or 385 out of 447 new patients are asymptomatic. Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 6,107 new coronavirus cases, and 57 fresh deaths linked to the infection, while 16,035 more patients recovered from the disease, the state health department said.

With these additions, the overall tally of Covid-19 cases increased to 78,16,243, while the death toll jumped to 1,43,155. The state has 96,069 active cases.

According to the department, till date, a total of 3,334 patients infected with the highly contagious Omicron variant have been reported in the state. Out of these, 2,023 patients have been discharged following a negative RT-PCR test. The fatality rate in the state is 1.83 per cent, while the recovery rate is 96.89 per cent, it said.

Maharashtra's daily positivity rate is 5.4 per cent. The Pune administrative region recorded 2,136 new cases. Of the 57 fatalities, the Pune region reported 35 followed by nine in Mumbai region, four each from Nagpur and Nashik regions, three from Latur, one each from Kolhapur and Aurangabad regions. MMR saw 868 cases.

78,16,243
Total No. of cases in Maharashtra

868
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

1
No. of deaths in city on tuesday (The person had comorbidities and was above 60 years of age)

798
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Tuesday

1,05,17,598
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

88,19,203
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

9526
(No. of people who took first dose on Tuesday)

23,710
(No. of people who took second dose on Tuesday)

2,74,873
(Total no. of booster doses administered so far)

8,141
(No. of booster doses administered on Tuesday)