Tuesday was the third day in a row when the addition to the tally was less than 200, with Monday’s 96 being the lowest since April, 2020, just a month after the pandemic began nationwide
A teenager receives a vaccine dose at Nair hospital on Tuesday. Pic/Ashish Raje
A day after reporting less than 100 COVID-19 cases, Mumbai on Tuesday added 135 patients to its tally and recorded two fresh fatalities due to the infection, a civic official said.
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The caseload in the metropolis now stands at 10,55,792 and the COVID-19 death toll is 16,690.
With 233 being discharged after treatment, the count of recoveries went up to 10,34,914 in Mumbai, which was 98 per cent of the tally, he said. Some 85 per cent, or 115 cases, of the 135 detected during the day were asymptomatic, with just 20 patients requiring hospital admission and eight needing oxygen support.
The active tally in the city stood at 1,315 and 781 of the 36,248 beds earmarked for COVID-19 treatment are currently occupied, the official said.
Tuesday was the third day in a row when the addition to the tally was less than 200, with Monday’s 96 being the lowest since April, 2020, just a month after the pandemic began nationwide.
The BMC data showed 20,889 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, nearly 4,000 more than those conducted the previous day, taking the overall tests to 1,60,66,326.
It also showed the positivity rate was 0.64 per cent, and that there was no sealed building or containment zone currently in the city. The caseload doubling time stood 3,512 days.
Mumbai had reported a record 20,971 cases on January 7 this year amid the third wave of the pandemic.
78,60,317 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
242 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
2 No. of deaths in city on tuesday (Both the deceased were senior citizens and had comorbidities)
233 Patients Recovered and discharged in city on tuesday
1,05,82,608 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
90,71,323 (No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
4,797 (No. of people who took first dose on tuesday)
29,120 (No. of people who took second dose on tuesday)
3,27,558 Total no. of booster doses administered so far
2,573 No. of booster Doses administered on tuesday
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