Covid-19: Mumbai reports 98 cases; active tally at 415

A beneficiary is given a vaccine at Nair hospital on Wednesday. Pic/Ashish Raje

Mumbai on Wednesday saw an increase in COVID-19 cases with the addition of 98 new infections that took the tally up to 10,58,982, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

The toll, however, remained unchanged at 19,562, as no fresh fatalities were reported during the day, the official said.

The city has been witnessing a rise in infections over the last couple of days, after it recorded 83 and 34 cases on Tuesday and Monday respectively.

As per the bulletin issued by the civic body, of the latest cases, 96 patients were asymptomatic and none of the infected persons have been admitted to hospitals.

At least 9,514 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted so far to 168,08,907, it was stated. With the positivity rate at 0.010 per cent and recovery rate at 98 per cent, the city currently has 415 active cases, the bulletin stated.

The count of recoveries has reached 10,39,005, as 73 patients were discharged from hospitals, it said.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 162 fresh coronavirus cases, more than half of them in Mumbai alone, 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 78,76,203, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,47,830. On Tuesday, the state recorded 137 cases and three deaths linked to the disease.

Sindhudurg, Sangli, Nandurbar, Jalgaon, Jalna, Parbhani, Hingoli, Nanded, Osmanabad, Washim, Buldhana, Yavatmal, Wardha and Bhandara districts have zero active cases, the department said in a bulletin.

The health department said 132 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 77,27,683 and leaving the state with 690 active COVID-19 cases.

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

The department said 26,157 coronavirus tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative tally to 7,99,39,632.

78,76,203 Total No. of cases in Maharashtra
111 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on Wednesday
73 patients Recovered and discharged in city on Wednesday

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