Thane reports two new Covid-19 cases, active tally at 13

A health worker collects a swab sample for Covid-19 test. File Pic

Two new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, raising its infection tally to 7,47,420, a health official told news agency PTI on Thursday.

With the addition of the latest cases on Wednesday, there are currently 13 active Covid-19 cases in the district, which comes under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, he said.

The death toll in Thane remained unchanged at 11,969 and the recovery count stood at 7,36,208, he added.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 14 fresh coronavirus cases, while no new death linked to the infection was registered in the state, said the health department.

With this, the state's overall Covid-19 tally rose to 81,36,992, while the death toll remained static at 1,48,420, said a health department bulletin.

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Mumbai recorded only one case, it said.

The state's coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98.17 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.82 per cent.

The bulletin said since December 24, when the health department once again started screening travellers coming from overseas, 4,45,342 international passengers have arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports.

Of these, RT-PCR test was done on 10,178 passengers and 24 positive swab samples were sent for genome sequencing, said the bulletin.

All positive samples are referred for WGS (whole genome sequencing), it said.

Genome sequencing is a sophisticated laboratory test that can map out the whole genetic makeup of a virus from a patient's swab sample and help in detection of a new variant.

(With inputs from PTI)