The case doubling rate in the city is 9,515 days, while the overall growth rate for the period between April 19 to April 25 was 0.007 per cent, as per the bulletin
A swab sample being collected at Dadar station on Tuesday. Pic/Suresh Karkera
Mumbai on Tuesday reported 102 fresh COVID-19 cases, the highest one-day rise after February 27 this year, taking the tally of infections to 10,59,433, the civic body said. The COVID-19 death toll remained unchanged at 19,562 with no fresh fatality. Mumbai is now left with 549 active cases.
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Notably, the daily COVID-19 cases more than doubled in the past two days in the metropolis. On Sunday, Mumbai had registered 45 cases.
On February 27 this year, the city had logged 103 cases, following which the number of daily cases dropped to two-digits, barring March 2 when 100 infections were reported.
With the sharp rise in cases, the daily positivity rate has jumped over 0.010 per cent after a long gap and reached 0.014 per cent from 0.008 per cent on Monday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said in the bulletin.
In the past 24 hours, 7,240 COVID-19 tests were carried out in the city, taking the total number of samples tested so far to 1,68,58,277.
As per the bulletin, out of 102 new cases, 99 patients are asymptomatic and only three patients were admitted in hospitals, but none of them needed oxygen support.
The recovery rate in Mumbai is 98 per cent. With 85 more patients discharged after treatment, the number of COVID-19 recoveries so far in Mumbai jumped to 10,39,322, it said.
The case doubling rate in the city is 9,515 days, while the overall growth rate for the period between April 19 to April 25 was 0.007 per cent, as per the bulletin.
Currently, only 19 of the total 26,044 hospital beds remain occupied in the city.
The metropolis has been free of any sealed buildings and COVID-19 containment zones for a long time.
On January 7 this year, Mumbai had reported the highest 20,971 cases during the third wave.
The city had reported the highest number of 11,163 daily cases on April 4, 2021, and the highest fatalities at 90 on last May 1.
A day before, while addressing a function for the launch of the National Common Mobility Card at BEST headquarters here, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had appealed to the people to keep wearing masks as the COVID-19 threat is not yet over.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 153 new cases and 4 fatalities on Tuesday. There are 943 active cases in the state.
The state also saw 135 patients being discharged in the past 24 hours while the recovery rate stood at 98.11 per cent. The case fatality stood at 1.87 per cent as on Tuesday.
78,77,078 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
115 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of death in city on tuesday
85 patients Recovered and discharged in city on tuesday
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