The metropolis has been registering less than 100 cases per day since March 3 this year. With the rise in the daily cases, the case positivity rate of Mumbai rose to 0.007 per cent from 0.005 per cent
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Mumbai on Wednesday reported 73 new Covid-19 cases, the highest in a day after March 17 this year, taking the overall tally to 10,58,567, the city civic body said. With no fresh fatality due to Covid-19, the death toll in Mumbai remained unchanged at 19,560, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin said. It said 68 out of 73 patients are asymptomatic and five others are admitted to hospitals.
Covid-19 cases have been rising steadily since the start of this week on Monday, when Mumbai had recorded 23 cases, as per the data. A day earlier Mumbai had logged 52 cases and zero fatalities. The metropolis has been registering less than 100 cases per day since March 3 this year. With the rise in the daily cases, the case positivity rate of Mumbai rose to 0.007 per cent from 0.005 per cent.
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In the last 24 hours, 9,970 Covid-19 tests were conducted, taking the total number of samples tested so far in Mumbai to 1,67,45,172, the bulletin said. With 51 patients discharged after treatment, the number of recoveries in Mumbai rose to 10,38,676 with a recovery rate of 98 per cent, leaving the city with 331 active cases. The case doubling rate now stands at 16,538 days, while the overall growth rate of cases between April 6 to April 12 was 0.004 per cent, it said.
Notably, only 13 of the total 26,151 Covid-19 hospital beds remain occupied as of Wednesday in Mumbai. The metropolis has been free of any sealed buildings and containment zones for a long time. Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 124 fresh coronavirus positive cases and one fatality, the health department said. With this, the state’s Covid-19 tally rose to 78,75,448 and toll to 1,47,821. On Tuesday, the state had recorded 113 cases and four fatalities.
The department said in a statement that 113 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the overall recovery count to 77,26,903. The Covid-19 recovery rate in the state stands at 98.11 per cent. There are 724 active cases in the state, it said. Jalgaon, Nandurbar, Latur, Osmanabad, Yavatmal, Bhandara, Chandrapur districts do not have any active case, it added.
One death in the state was reported from Sindhudurg district. The state’s case fatality rate stands at 1.87 per cent. It said 29,049 tests were conducted in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tests conducted in the state to 7,97,60,948.
78,75,448
Total no of cases in Maharashtra
8
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0
No of deaths in city on Wednesday
51
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Wednesday
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