The silver lining is that 85 per cent of those who tested positive on Thursday are asymptomatic; Covid claims four more lives in city
A boy gets a dose of Covaxin at Nair hospital on Thursday. Pic/Ashish Raje
Mumbai reported 20,181 Covid cases on Thursday, a 33 per cent jump in fresh infections over the previous day. With the city carrying out 67,487 tests, the test positivity rate stood at 29.9 per cent. While authorities had talked of bringing in curbs if daily cases rose above 20,000, they said there is no such plan at the moment owing to fewer hospitalisations.
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While experts predict the daily numbers to rise further, the silver lining is that about 85 per cent of those who tested positive during the day are asymptomatic. At the peak of the second wave, the highest number of single-day infections stood at 11,163.
According to a report shared by the BMC, 1,170 patients were hospitalised on Thursday, taking the total number of such patients to 5,998. The city registered four Covid deaths. All the victims were comorbid and above the age of 60. The doubling rate dropped to 70 days. While the recovery rate of Mumbai was 88 per cent, 2,837 patients were discharged on Thursday.
A sample being collected from a railway cop, at Dadar station. Pic/Ashish Raje
The state saw 36,265 new cases on Thursday, up from 18,466 on Tuesday, while the virus claimed 13 lives across Maharashtra. The state’s case-fatality rate dipped to 2.08 per cent. A total of 8,907 people were discharged during the day. The state has 1,14,847 active cases.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region registered 30,312 infections. The Thane Municipal Corporation and Navi Mumbai reported 2,370 and 2,297 cases respectively. While Panvel saw 939 cases, Vasai-Virar had 901 cases and Thane city had 833 cases. Other than Mumbai, the MMR saw two more deaths in Vasai-Virar.
On Thursday, 79 new Omicron infections were reported in the state of which 57 are from Mumbai. So far, 876 cases of Omicron have been registered of which 381 patients have been discharged.
67,93,297
Total No. of cases in Maharashtra
30,312
Total no. of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours
4
No. of deaths in city on Thursday (All the patients had comorbidities and were above 60 years)
2,837
Patients recovered and discharged in city on Thursday
1,00,41,687
(Total no. of people administered the first dose)
82,09,291
(No. of people who have taken second dose so far)
24,707
(No. of people who took first dose on Thursday)
33,971
(No. of people who took second dose on Thursday)
70
Mumbai’s doubling rate on Thursday
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