Mumbai reports five new Covid-19 cases, active tally at 41

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Mumbai on Thursday reported as many as five new cases of Covid-19. The fresh cases took the tally of infections to 11,55,183, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a health bulletin.

No death was reported on January 12, the death toll remained unchanged at 19,746, it said.

The recovery count increased by seven more patients to touch 11,35,396, the health bulletin said.

The city now has an active caseload of 41, it further said.

According to the data, Mumbai's overall growth rate of cases between January 5 and January 11 was 0.0003 per cent, and the recovery rate stood at 98.3 per cent.

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Meanwhile, Maharashtra had on Wednesday recorded 21 fresh coronavirus cases, but no new death linked to the infection was registered in the state, the health department said. With this, the state's overall Covid-19 tally had rose to 81,36,865, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,48,418, the department said in a bulletin.

The bulletin had said 22 patients recovered from the respiratory disease in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 79,88,302 and leaving the state with 145 active cases.

The state's coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98.17 per cent.

The health department said since December 24, when authorities started screening passengers in the wake of a fresh spurt in coronavirus cases in some countries, 3,19,383 international travellers have arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports.