Covid-19: Maharashtra logs 18 new cases

19 August,2023 07:39 PM IST |  Mumbai  |  mid-day online correspondent

Maharashtra reported 18 new Covid-19 cases and zero deaths on Saturday, as per the health bulletin released by the government

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Maharashtra reported 18 new Covid-19 cases and zero deaths on Saturday, as per the health bulletin released by the government.

According to the bulletin, six patients were discharged today taking the total tally of recovered patients to 80,21,764.

Maharashtra presently has 99 active cases.

"The recovery rate in the state is 98.18 per cent. The case fatality rate in the state is 1.81 per cent," said the health official.

Out of 8,74,62,398 laboratory samples 81,70,432 have tested positive (9.34 per cent) for Covid-19 until today.

"Around 2,290 test were done today out of which 1.726 test were conducted in government laboratories, 562 were done in private laboratories and two by self-tets," the health official said.

At present dominant variant of Covid is Omicron XBB.1.16. Total 1,733 cases were found to be infected with this variant. There were 19 deaths reported among the cases of this variant.

Since January 1, 2023, 127 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. 72.44 per cent of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 84 per cent of the deceased had comorbidities, 16 per cent did not have any comorbidity.

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