Mumbai reports 375 cases, no fatality; state sees 1 death

As many as 234 patients recovered from the infection in the past 24 hours, pushing the total count to 10,43,342

With 375 new cases, Mumbai’s Covid-19 infection count grew to 10,64,056 on Sunday. The city’s death toll remained unchanged at 19,566 as nobody succumbed to the infection during the day. As many as 234 patients recovered from the infection in the past 24 hours, pushing the total count to 10,43,342. The financial capital’s overall recovery rate stood at 98 per cent. 

The city currently has 2,070 active patients.  Of the 375 new patients, 358 or 95 per cent were asymptomatic while 17 needed hospitalisation. Of these patients, only three were put on oxygen beds. As of Sunday, only 89 of the total 24,472 dedicated Covid beds at hospitals and health facilities were occupied. The doubling rate in the financial capital stood at 2,872 days while the growth rate between May 22 and 28 was 0.024 per cent.

Mumbai division or the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, which comprises the city and its satellite townships, reported 468 new cases. With this, the case count of this region is now 22,40,283 and the fatality figure is 39,837. Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Sunday reported 550 new coronavirus positive cases, 21 more than the previous day, which raised the overall tally to 78,85,944, while one death took the toll to 1,47,859, the state health department said.

On Saturday, the state had recorded 529 cases, but no virus-related death. A total of 324 coronavirus patients were discharged on Sunday, which pushed the recovery count to 77,35,088, it said in a statement. There are 2,997 active Covid-19 cases in the state at present. The state’s recovery rate is 98.09 per cent, while the fatality rate is 1.87 per cent.

Pune division reported 59 new cases, Nagpur division seven cases, Nashik division six new cases, Kolhapur division five cases, Aurangabad and Akola divisions two cases each, and Latur division one case. The only death in the state was reported in Solapur district. During the day, 24,707 people were tested to ascertain whether they were infected, which took the overall test count to 8,08,89,128.

78,85,944
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

468
Total no of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

0
No of deaths in city on Sunday

234
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Sunday

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