No death was reported on January 18, the toll remained unchanged at 19,746, the BMC said in a health bulletin
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Mumbai on Wednesday reported a single case of Covid-19. The addition of the fresh case took the tally of infections to 11,55,218, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a health bulletin.
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No death was reported on January 18, the death toll remained unchanged at 19,747, it said.
The recovery count increased by eight more patients to touch the total number of recoveries to 11,35,431, the health bulletin said.
The city now has an active caseload of 40 patients, it further said.
According to the data, Mumbai's overall growth rate of cases between January 11 and January 17 was 0.0005 per cent, and the recovery rate stood at 98.3 per cent.
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Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 14 fresh coronavirus cases, while no new death linked to the infection was registered in the state, said the health department, as per the PTI.
With this, the state's overall Covid-19 tally rose to 81,36,992, while the death toll remained static at 1,48,420, said a health department bulletin.
The state's coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98.17 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.82 per cent.
The bulletin said since December 24, when the health department once again started screening travellers coming from overseas, 4,45,342 international passengers have arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports.
Of these, RT-PCR test was done on 10,178 passengers and 24 positive swab samples were sent for genome sequencing, said the bulletin.
All positive samples are referred for WGS (whole genome sequencing), it said.
(with PTI inputs)
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