Mumbai logs 28 new Covid-19 cases; active tally now 299

Health workers conduct tests at LTT on Sunday. Pic/Shadab Khan

Mumbai reported 28 new cases and zero fresh fatalities on Monday, while 27 more patients recovered from the infection, leaving the city with an active tally of less than 300, the civic body said.

With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases jumped to 10,57,589, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,693, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin said.

For the fifth day in a row and in 19 out of 21 days of March, the city has logged zero COVID-19 cases.

Mumbai's daily COVID-19 cases remained below 30 for the second consecutive day. On Sunday, the financial capital had logged 27 COVID-19 cases and zero fatalities.

The daily COVID-19 cases in the city are below the 100-mark since March 2.

The number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the city in the last 24 hours was less than 10,000. This has happened for the third time this month. On March 7 and 19, too, coronavirus tests were below the 10,000-mark.

In the last 24 hours, 9,283 COVID-19 tests were carried out in the city, taking their cumulative count to 1,65,01,753, the bulletin said.

Mumbai's coronavirus positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, was 0.003 per cent, while the rate of recovery was 98 per cent, as per the bulletin. With 27 more patients recovering during the day, the number of discharged cases jumped to 10,37,713. Mumbai now has 299 active COVID-19 cases, it said.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Monday reported 99 new COVID-19 cases, but no fresh fatalities linked to the infection, while 180 more patients were discharged following recovery, leaving the state with an active tally of less than 1,300, the heath department said.

The state logged 99 fresh coronavirus cases, but zero fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking the overall COVID-19 tally to 78,72,512, while the toll remained unchanged at 1,43,767, the heath department said in a bulletin.

As many as 24 districts and 14 of the 27 municipal corporations (which include Mumbai) did not report any COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, as per the bulletin. State's positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, is 0.002 per cent.

78,72,512 Total No. of cases in maharashtra
36 Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
0 No. of deaths in city on monday
27 patients Recovered and discharged in city on monday

1,06,27,777 (Total no. of people administered the first dose)
94,03,170 (No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
2,871 (No. of people who took first dose on monday)
9,993 (No. of people who took second dose on monday)
3,73,534 Total no. of booster doses administered so far
3,550 No. of booster Doses administered on monday

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