Mumbai adds 259 new Covid-19 cases, 91 per cent are asymptomatic

A passenger, who arirved aboard a train from Gujarat, is tested for Covid-19, as others wait for their turn, at Dadar station, on Thursday. Pic/Ashish Raje

Mumbai did not record any fresh death linked to Covid-19 for the third day in a row on Thursday, while 259 more people tested positive for the infection and the active tally dropped below the 2,000-mark, the BMC said. The BMC said 235 out of the 259 new patients, or around 91 per cent of the total, were asymptomatic. In the last 24 hours, only 20 patients were hospitalised and seven put on oxygen support, the bulletin said.

With this, the overall tally of coronavirus infections jumped to 10,54,991, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,685, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin said. For the fourth consecutive day, the financial capital has registered less than 300 new Covid-19 cases. However, the daily cases have gone up on all these days compared to the previous day. On Wednesday, the city had recorded 255 cases.

Significantly, the city has remained free of sealed buildings and containment zones for more than a week now. The daily test positivity rate was 0.74 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 34,869 Covid-19 tests, around 4,000 more than the previous day, were carried out in the city. With 426 more patients discharged during the day, the number of recovered cases jumped to 10,33,497, it said. The city's Coronavirus recovery rate is 98 per cent and it currently has 1,945 active Covid-19 cases, as per the bulletin. The doubling rate of Mumbai jumped to 2,407 days, while the growth rate of Covid-19 infection between February 10 and February 16 was 0.03 per cent, the BMC said.

Slight rise in state's cases

Maharashtra reported 2,797 fresh cases and 40 new fatalities, while 6,383 more patients were discharged, the health department said. On Wednesday, the state had reported 2,748 cases and 41 fatalities. There are 23,816 active cases in the state, it said. The recovery rate in the state is 97.82 per cent. The bulletin did not mention any fresh Omicron cases.

78,53,291
Total No. of cases in Maharashtra

473
No. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours

00
No. of deaths in city on Thursday

426
No. of patients recovered and discharged in city on Thursday