Covid-19: After a gap of three days, Mumbai records cases below 3,000

While 3,608 patients recovered on Saturday, city’s death toll remains a cause for concern. The BMC recorded 62 deaths in a day

In a major relief, after recording more than 3,000 cases for three consecutive days, the city registered 2,678 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday. In the state, the total number of cases registered stands at more than 50,000.

According to the BMC, 33,378 tests were conducted. Meanwhile, 3,608 recoveries were reported on Saturday. But the number of deaths is still a cause for concern with 62 more deaths registered in a single day. Out of these, 31 had comorbidities, 38 were above the age of 60 years, 21 were between 40 and 60 years of age and three were below 40 years of age. The recovery rate has increased to 91 per cent.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) reported 7,541 cases on Saturday, which is around 13 per cent of the total cases in the state. The MMR was recording around 25 per cent cases last month. Cities like Thane recorded 487 cases, Navi Mumbai hit 267 and Kalyan-Dombivli had 558 cases. The MMR, excluding Mumbai, witnessed 67 deaths out of which 28 were reported in Raigad and Panvel, 11 in Navi Mumbai and 25 in Thane city and district. Pune circle reported 14,056 cases, Nashik circle had 8,834 and Nagpur hit 7,695 cases.

Allow states to have own apps for Covid-19 vaccination: CM

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has urged the central government to allow states to develop their own applications for Covid-19 vaccination programme.

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Thackeray said the vaccination drive in Maharashtra has been the “fastest and the most efficient in the country”. At present, people have to register their names on CoWIN platform introduced by the central government for the vaccination.

“As we plan to open up vaccination for the 18 to 45 age group through the state’s procurement, the CoWIN app is seeing a sudden surge in the number of citizens wanting to register nationally. There is fear about the app malfunctioning and crashing as it did on the first day of registration of the age group. We propose a separate app developed by states, from where the data can be shared with the Union ministry of health,” he said.

53,605
Total number of cases in Maharashtra on saturday

62
Total number of deaths in Mumbai

864
Total number of deaths in Maharashtra

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