The city’s COVID-19 test count increased to 1,69,22,334 as 7,035 tests were carried out during the day, over 1,400 less than the previous day
A beneficiary gets a jab at Nair hospital on Wednesday. Pic/Ashish Raje
Mumbai on Wednesday reported 117 new COVID-19 cases, its highest one-day tally since February 25, which took its overall count to 10,60,187, the civic body said. The death toll in the metropolis remained unchanged at 19,563 as nobody succumbed to the infection in the past 24 hours, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in its bulletin.
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This is the second consecutive day that the country’s financial capital witnessed the number of cases running into three digits. On Tuesday, the city had logged 100 new cases. Last week also, Mumbai had reported more than 100 infection cases on April 26 and 27.
On February 25 this year, the megalopolis had reported 128 cases.
The city’s COVID-19 test count increased to 1,69,22,334 as 7,035 tests were carried out during the day, over 1,400 less than the previous day.
As per the bulletin, 114 out of the 117 new patients were asymptomatic. The symptomatic patients were hospitalised, but only one of them needed oxygen support.
Only 15 out of the total 26,009 hospital beds are occupied, the bulletin said, adding that the number of recoveries jumped to 10,39,982 as 112 more patients were discharged from hospitals during the day. Currently, there are 642 active COVID-19 patients in the city.
Mumbai’s average recovery rate of such patients is 98 per cent and the overall growth rate of these cases is 0.008 per cent between April 27 and May 2, the bulletin said, adding that its case doubling rate is 8,003.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 188 new cases, but did not report any fatality, the health department said. With fresh cases, the state’s COVID-19 tally rose to 78,78,363, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,47,845.
On Tuesday, the state had recorded 182 cases and one fatality.
There are 1,049 active cases in the state, but Sangli, Jalgaon, Nandurbar, Beed, Latur, Hingoli, Osmanabad, Amravati, Akola, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia district do not have any active cases.
The state’s COVID-19 fatality rate stands at 1.87 per cent.
The health department said that 166 patients recovered from the infection during the past 24 hours, taking the cumulative recovery count to 77,29,469. The recovery rate in the state stands at 98.11 per cent.
It said that 20,168 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tests conducted in the state to 8,02,70,696.
78,78,363 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
138 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on wednesday
112 patients Recovered and discharged in city on wednesday
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