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Maharashtra reports 154 Covid-19 cases, two deaths

Updated on: 06 January,2024 07:44 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 154 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths, a state health department bulletin said

Maharashtra reports 154 Covid-19 cases, two deaths

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Key Highlights

  1. Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 154 new Covid-19 cases
  2. Two deaths were reported in the state on January 6
  3. Maharashtra now has an active caseload of 931 patients

Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 154 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths, a state health department bulletin said.


Maharashtra now has an active caseload of 931 patients after 172 patients were discharged after recovery, it said.


Two fatalities including one in Mumbai and one in Nagpur were reported on January 6, the bulletin said.


According to the health bulletin, since January 1, 2023, 141 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. About 70.92 per cent of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 84 per cent of the deceased had comorbidities and 16 per cent people did not have any comorbidity.

The recovery rate in the state is 98.17 per cent and the case fatality rate in the state is 1.81 per cent, the bulletin said.

It said that 14,790 Covid-19 tests were done across the state on Saturday. Till January 6, as many as 139 patients were found to be infected with JN.1 variant in the state.

Meanwhile, Mumbai on Saturday reported 21 new cases of Covid-19 and one death due to the infection. The addition of the fresh cases took the total tally of infections in the city to 358 so far from December 1, 2023, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a health bulletin.

The bulletin said that a 52-year-old man, a resident, under the jurisdiction of M West ward of the BMC was admitted at public hospital on January 4. He was a chronic alcoholic. The patient had fever, cough, and breathlessness for 5 days. He had tested positive for Covid-19 on January 5 and his condition deteriorated leading to him passing away January 5. The cause of death is LRTI with sepsis with septic shock.

The bulletin said that the recovery count increased by 32 patients to touch the total number of recoveries to 208 since December 1, 2023.

The city now has an active caseload of 150 patients, it further said.

According to the bulletin, the testing in the city was being done as per ICMR guidelines.

It said that no JN.1 variant of Covid-19 was detected in the city.

The bulletin said that 51 per cent of the cases are asymptomatic, symptomatic cases have mild symptoms and recover within a few days.

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