Mumbai reports 5 new Covid-19 cases, active tally in city at 67
Mumbai on Saturday reported as many as five new cases of Covid-19. The addition of fresh cases took the total tally of infections in the city to 11,63,815, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), said in a health bulletin.
No death was reported on June 3, the death toll in the city remained unchanged at 19,772, the health bulletin said.
The city now has an active caseload of 67 patients, it further said.
The bulletin said that the recovery count increased by seven more patients to touch the total number of recoveries to 11,43,963.
According to the data in the bulletin, Mumbai`s overall growth rate of cases between May 27 and June 2 was 0.0010 per cent, and the recovery rate stood at 98.3 per cent.
So far, 188,78,389 Covid-19 tests have been conducted in the city, including 810 samples taken in the past 24 hours, as per civic data.
The caseload doubling time is 77,432 days, as per civic data.
Mumbai had on Friday reported as many as eight new cases of Covid-19. The addition of fresh cases took the total tally of infections in the city to 11,63,810, the BMC, said in a health bulletin.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Friday reported 25 Covid-19 cases, which took the tally to 81,69,319, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,48,552, a health official said, reported the PTI.
The recovery rate is 98.18 per cent, the fatality rate is 1.81 per cent and the total number of coronavirus tests conducted stood at 8,71,57,153, including 5,849 in the last 24 hours.
At present the dominant variant of Covid is Omicron XBB.1.16 and a total 1,685 cases were found with this variant. There were 19 deaths reported due to this variant, the bulletin said.
Since 1st Jan 2023, 122 Covid-19 deaths have been recorded. 72.95% of these deaths have occurred in individuals above 60 years of age, 84% of the deceased had comorbidities, 16% did not have any comorbidity, it said.
(with PTI inputs)
