COVID-19 cases in Mumbai and Maharashtra show a slight dip

After recording over 31k cases in the state in the past few days continuously the number dipped to 27K and the same is the case in the city where the number had gone upto 6k as on Tuesday it recorded cases below 5kThe state recorded 27918 new cases taking the total tally of Maharashtra to 2773 lakh cases The number of mortality cases too has been seeing an increasing trend in the past few days as the COVIDrelated deaths recorded in the state were 139 in the last 24 hours taking the total to 54422 deaths in allOn Monday the city reported 4760 new cases The MMR number that had crossed the 10K mark in the past two days has dropped to 8807 cases with the Thane Municipal Corporation Navi Mumbai and Kalyan Dombivali Corporation recording a spike in positive cases with 925 772 and 943 reported respectivelyThe statersquos recovery rate which has dropped now stands at 8571 per cent with 23820 patients discharged The total number of active COVID patients in the state is currently 340542 cases The state saw 196 crore laboratory samples collected till date since March 2020 and out of these 2773 lakh have tested positive with 1413 per cent positivity ratioMumbairsquos recovery rate has dropped and stands at 85 per cent while the doubling rate now stands at 50 days The cityrsquos overall growth rate has increased rapidly in the last one week and currently stands at 134 per cent The total count of positive cases recorded so far now stands at 4093 lakh cases and the number of tests carried out so far is 4041lakh The active cases now stand at 49167 in the cityThe mortality rate of the state is steady at around 196 per cent The number of deaths due to other causes in the state is 1345 so far These deaths are the cases where patients were positive and tested negative but later died due to other complicationsAccording to the state governmentrsquos data there were 139 COVIDrelated deaths in the state and highest number of deaths were recorded in Nashik city at 12 deaths MMR recorded a total of 21 death cases including Mumbai which recorded 10 deaths Civic officials said out of these 10 deaths 6 patients were suffering from other ailments and 7 deaths were of senior citizens2773436Tal No of cases in Maharashtra8807Total no of cases reported in MMR on Tuesday10No of deaths in city on Tuesday 6 patients were suffering from other ailments and 7 deaths were of senior citizens3034Patients recovered and discharged in city on Tuesday977432Total no of people administered the first vaccine dose147526No of people who have taken their second vaccine dose so far24397No of people who took their first vaccine dose on Tuesday2477No of people who took their second vaccine dose on Tuesday