Mumbai’s daily Covid-19 cases had been below 30 for the last three days and under-100 since March 2, 2022
A patient's swab sample being taken. File Pic
After reporting less than 30 Covid-19 cases for three days in a row, Mumbai logged 46 new infections on Wednesday, but no fresh death linked to the disease was recorded, the city civic body said.
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With this, the tally of Covid-19 cases jumped to 10,57,661, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,693, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin said.
Mumbai’s daily Covid-19 cases had been below 30 for the last three days and under-100 since March 2, 2022.
A day before, Mumbai had logged 28 Covid-19 cases and zero fatalities for the seventh day in a row.
Significantly, on 21 out of 23 days of March so far, the city has logged zero Covid-19 deaths.
In the last 24 hours, 11,954 Covid-19 tests were carried out in the city, taking their cumulative tally to 1,65,23,675, the bulletin said.
The financial capital’s positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, was 0.003 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 98 per cent, the BMC said.
With 44 more patients recovering from the infection in the last 24 hours, the number of discharged cases jumped to 10,37,806, as per the bulletin. At present, the city has 277 active Covid-19 cases, it said.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 149 new cases of coronavirus and two fresh deaths linked to the infection, while 222 more patients were discharged following recovery, the state health department said.
With this, the overall Covid-19 count in the state rose to 78,72,817, while the death toll increased to 1,43,769, the department said in a bulletin.
In Maharashtra, 19 districts and 13 municipal corporations did not report any fresh cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the bulletin said.
As per the bulletin, the number of recovered cases in Maharashtra increased to 77,23,959 after 222 patients were discharged during the day, leaving the state with an active tally of 1,084.
The coronavirus fatality rate in the state was 1.82 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 98.11 per cent, the department said.
78,72,817 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
68 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on wednesday
44 patients Recovered and discharged in city on wednesday
1,06,33,239 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
94,21,380 (No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
2,809 (No. of people who took first dose on wednesday)
8,828 (No. of people who took second dose on wednesday)
3,81,497 Total no. of booster doses administered so far
4,009 No. of booster Doses administered on wednesday
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