COVID-19: Doubling rate of Mumbai down to 249 days

BMC health workers check the vitals of passengers arriving in the city at Dadar station. Pic/Ashish Raje

On Saturday, the city saw a dip in numbers from the past week's, registering less than a 1,000 cases. The state recorded 8,623 new cases on Saturday, taking Maharashtra's tally to 21.46 lakh cases.

The total number of COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours stands at 51, taking the total to 52,092 deaths in all.

While Mumbai saw 987 cases, sources said this is possibly due to drop in number of tests. Meanwhile, the Thane Municipal Corporation, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan Dombivli corporations continued to record cases in three digits-202, 116 and 189 respectively.

The state's recovery rate stands at 94.14 per cent with 3,648 number of patients discharged on Saturday. Mumbai's recovery rate too has dropped, and stands at 93 per cent while the doubling rate has dropped to 249 days. The city's total COVID-19 case count now stands at 3.24 lakh and the number of tests carried out so far is 32.53 lakhs. The city has 9,496 on-going cases.

According to the state government's data, there were 51 COVID-19 related deaths in the state. Eight deaths were reported in MMR as Mumbai recorded four deaths, and Navi Mumbai and Panvel recorded two deaths each.

8,623
Total new cases in Maharashtra

987
Total no. of cases reported in city limits

1,823
Total number of cases in MMR

4
No. of deaths in city

801
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Saturday