Covid-19: Mumbai reports 80 cases, zero deaths for seventh day in a row

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Mumbai did not report any Covid-19 death for the seventh consecutive day on Thursday, but recorded 80 new cases of the infection, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

With the addition of these cases, the city's caseload reached 10,56,729, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,691, it said. A total of 118 patients were discharged during the day, which raised the recovery count to 10,36,5076. There are now 650 active cases in the metropolis, the civic body said in its report.

With 16,671 tests being carried out in the past 24 hours, the overall test figure went up to 1,62,37,835. The recovery rate of the state capital now stands at 98 per cent and no area or building is currently sealed in the city.

Meanwhile, a day after reporting zero Covid-19 death, Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 12 fatalities and 467 new cases, including 243 Omicron infections, the state health department said. With the addition, the state's coronavirus positive tally rose to 78,67,391 and toll to 1,43,718.

On Wednesday, the state had recorded 544 coronavirus positive cases, but did not report any fatality. The last time the state recorded zero death was on April 1, 2020. "Today, 234 patients with Omicron infection were reported in the state. All these patients were reported by Kasturba hospital's laboratory," the health department said in a statement.

All 234 infections were reported from Mumbai. Till date, a total of 5,005 patients infected with Omicron variant have been reported in the state. Of these, 4,629 patients have been discharged following a negative RT-PCR test.

So far, 9,382 samples have been sent for genome sequencing, of which results of 8,714 patients have been received, while the results of 668 are awaited. A total of 1,144 patients were discharged in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the overall recovery count to 77,14,719. The recovery rate in the state is 98.06 per cent. The active cases in Maharashtra stand at 4,953.

78,67,391
Total no. of cases in Maharashtra

145
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

0
No. of deaths in city on Thursday

118
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Thursday

10,605,851
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)

9,239,469
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)

2,138
(No. of people who took first dose on Thursday)

15,482
(No. of people who took second dose on on Thursday)

3,42,220
Total no. of booster doses administered so far

1,524
No. of booster Doses administered on on Thursday