Mumbai sees 50 per cent drop in daily Covid-19 cases

The city’s cases accounted for more than half of the new patients detected in the state over the past 24 hours, the state health department said on Monday evening

Mumbai on Monday reported 63 Covid-19 cases, almost 50 per cent less than Sunday’s addition of 123, taking the tally here to 10,60,792, a civic official said.

The city’s cases accounted for more than half of the new patients detected in the state over the past 24 hours, the state health department said on Monday evening.

The death toll remained unchanged at 19,563, while the recovery count increased by 56 to touch 10,40,407, leaving the metropolis with 822 active cases, he said.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s data showed the recovery rate was 98 per cent and the caseload doubling time was 6,347 days.

It also revealed the number of coronavirus tests carried out so far was 1,69,60,984, of which 5,810 took place in the last 24 hours.

No fresh death in state

Maharashtra reported 121 fresh cases of Coronavirus, down from 224 the previous day, while no new death linked to the infection was registered in the state, the health department said.

With this, the state’s overall Covid-19 tally rose to 78,79,399, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,47,848, it said. The state had reported 224 coronavirus cases and one fatality on Sunday.

State has 1,343 active cases

Ratnagiri, Jalgaon, Nandurbar, Latur, Amravati, Akola, Buldhana, Wardha, Yavatmal, Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli districts have zero active cases of the respiratory disease, the health department said in a bulletin.

It said 82 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 77,30,209 and leaving the state with 1,343 active cases.

The state’s coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98.11 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.87 per cent.

The department said 17,305 new coronavirus tests were conducted in the state, pushing up their overall count to 8,03,96,726.

78,79,399
Total no of cases in Maharashtra

81
Total no of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

0
No of deaths in city on Monday

56
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Monday

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