Mumbai sees 26 Covid-19 cases; toll unchanged for 6th day

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Mumbai on Tuesday reported 26 COVID-19 cases, adding less than 30 cases to the tally for the third consecutive day, while the death toll remained unchanged for the sixth day in a row, a civic official said.

The metropolis' tally stands at 10,57,615 and the toll is 16,693, he said.

The city added 28 cases on Monday and 27 on Sunday, while the addition has been less than 100 since March 2, this year, the official pointed out.

He also said the death toll remained unchanged for 20 out of 22 days in March.

The discharge of 49 people in the past 24 hours has taken the recovery count to 10,37,762, which is 98 per cent of the caseload, leaving Mumbai with an active tally of 275, the official informed.

With 9,968 samples examined in the last 24 hours, the second consecutive day when this figure was less than 10,000, the overall number of tests in the country's financial capital was 1,65,11,721, civic data showed.

It also showed that the positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, stood at 0.002 per cent and the caseload doubling time was 20,720 days.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra did not report any death due to COVID-19 on Tuesday for the second day in a row, while 156 people tested positive for the infection and 269 others were discharged following recovery, the state health department said.

With this, the overall COVID-19 count in the state rose to 78,72,668, and the death toll remain unchanged at 1,43,767, the department said in a bulletin.

On Monday, the state had logged 99 cases, but no death linked to the infection. In Maharashtra, 18 districts and 17 municipal corporations did not report any fresh cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

As per the bulletin, the number of recoveries increased to 77,23,737 after 269 patients were discharged during the day, leaving the state with 1,159 active cases.

The case fatality rate in the state was 1.82 per cent, while the recovery rate stood at 98.11 per cent.

With 38,550 new tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the number of swab samples examined so far in Maharashtra rose to 7,90,25,520, bulletin said.

78,72,668 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
34 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on tuesday
49 patients Recovered and discharged in city on tuesday

1,06,30,528 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
93,12,502 (No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
2,795 (No. of people who took first dose on tuesday)
9,338 (No. of people who took second dose on tuesday)
3,77,542 Total no. of booster doses administered so far
3,996 No. of booster Doses administered on tuesday

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