On Tuesday, Mumbai had logged 50 new Covid-19 cases and zero death
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Mumbai on Wednesday reported 44 new cases of coronavirus and a single fatality that raised the tally of infections to 10,57,384 and the toll to 16,693, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said. This is the second time this month that Mumbai reported a Covid-19 fatality in a day. The city has not recorded a single death due to coronavirus infection in 14 days this month.
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On Tuesday, Mumbai had logged 50 new Covid-19 cases and zero death. With 53 more patients discharged from hospitals during the day, the count of recoveries in Mumbai rose to 1,037,493, the official said. A total of 15,425 swab samples were tested in the city in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of Covid-19 tests conducted so far to 164,25,832, the official said. As per the civic health bulletin, the rate of recovery in Mumbai currently stands at 98 per cent, while the positivity rate is 0.002 per cent.
The doubling rate of cases in Mumbai has jumped to 15,355 days, while the overall growth rate of Covid-19 cases between March 9 and March 15 was 0.005 per cent, it was stated. The city currently has 314 active cases, and 91 per cent of the new cases were asymptomatic, the bulletin stated. Only seven Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours and one patient is on oxygen support.
Of the total 28,387 hospital beds in the city, only 90 are currently occupied by Covid-19 patients, it said. Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 237 new coronavirus infections and two pandemic-related deaths, the state health department said. The caseload of the state rose to 78,71,803 and death toll reached 1,43,759, it added. The number of active coronavirus patients in the state dipped to 2,075.
A day before, Maharashtra had recorded 207 new infections and four fatalities. As many as 455 patients recovered during the day, taking the tally of recoveries to 77,21,965. The coronavirus case fatality rate in the state is 1.82 per cent, while the recovery rate is 98.10 per cent. With 56,574 coronavirus tests conducted since the previous evening, the number of samples tested so far in Maharashtra rose to 7,87,94,179.
78,71,803
Total no. of cases in Maharashtra
68
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
1
No. of deaths in city on Wednesday (One patient was above 60 years of age)
53
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Wednesday
1,06,21,563
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)
93,78,473
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
1,020
(No. of people who took first dose on Wednesday)
8,007
(No. of people who took second dose on Wednesday)
3,64,367
Total no. of booster doses administered so far
2,209
No. of booster Doses administered on Wednesday
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