Maharashtra reports 16 new Covid-19 cases; active tally at 124

No death was reported on Sunday, the toll remained unchanged at 1,48,420, the health department said in a bulletin

Maharashtra on Sunday reported 16 new cases of coronavirus that raised the tally of infections to 81,37,061, an official from the state health department said.

The count of recoveries reached 79,88,517 after 12 patients were discharged during the day, while the toll remained unchanged at 1,48,420 deaths, the official said.

With this, the state currently has 124 active cases. The recovery rate is at 98.17 per cent and fatality rate stood at 1.82 per cent, he said.

Mumbai reported five new infections, taking the total number of cases reported in the city so far to 11,55,313, including 19,747 fatalities, the official said.

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Of the latest cases, seven were reported from the Mumbai division, followed by Pune with three, Nashik with two and one each from Kolhapur, Nagpur and Akola divisions, it was stated.

Since December 24, 5,15,626 international passengers arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports and 11,718 underwent RT-PCR test and 27 tested positive for the infection, the health department said.

Meanwhile, India recorded 140 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases increased to 1,960, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.

The Covid case tally was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,81,921).

The death toll stands at 5,30,733, with one fatality reported by Meghalaya and two by Gujarat in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The daily positivity was recorded at 0.10 per cent while the weekly positivity was pegged at 0.08 per cent.

The active cases now comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate increased to 98.81 per cent, according to the health ministry website.

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