Covid-19: Mumbai sees 100 cases; no addition to death toll

A beneficiary is being administered with a Covid-19 at BYL Nair Hospital at Mumbai Central, on Wednesday. Pic/Ashish Raje

Mumbai on Wednesday recorded 100 new Covid-19 cases and zero deaths, while Maharashtra reported 544 new cases.

The overall state tally of infections now stands at 78,66,924, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,43,706, a health department official said. He said 37 Omicron cases were reported from Pune and one from Aurangabad, which increased the count of infections due to the new variant to 4,771, of which 4,629 have already been discharged.

The official said 9,382 samples were sent for genome sequencing, and results of 8,480 have arrived while that of 902 are awaited. A state health department bulletin said 1,007 people were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery count to 77,13,575, leaving the state with 5,643 active cases. Pune city was 69 cases, while the eight administrative circles of Pune region recorded 194 cases, Nashik 99, Akola and Nagpur 28 each, Kolhapur 15, Latur eight and Aurangabad nine.

It said 1,53,349 samples were examined in the last 24 hours, taking the overall number of cases in the state to 7,80,03,848. The health bulletin said 45,422 people are in home isolation and 660 in institutional quarantine in the state a present.

78,66,924
Total no. of cases in Maharashtra

100
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

0
No. of deaths in city on Wednesday

168
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Wednesday

10,60,36,049
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

92,23,896
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

2,164
(No. of people who took first dose on Wednesday)

17,447
(No. of people who took second dose on Wednesday)

3,40,701
Total no of booster doses administered so far

1,482
No. of booster Doses administered on Wednesday