In an alarming development, Maharashtra reported an 80% spike in its Covid-19 daily tally while Mumbai registered an 83% rise on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the country recorded 5,233 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with a daily positivity rate of 1.67% and 1.12% weekly.
Daily coronavirus infections in India were recorded above 5,000 after 93 days taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,90,282, while the active cases rose to 28,857, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The death toll climbed to 5,24,715 with seven fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,242 new coronavirus infections, almost double the previous day’s count. Along with Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai contributing 90% cases out of the total caseload in Maharashtra on Tuesday.
However, was but no pandemic-related death, said the civic body Brihanmumbai Mumbai Corporation (BMC). The infection count was the highest since January 29, when the city had reported 1,411 new cases and 11 fatalities.
Meanwhile in Kerala, Over 2,000 new Covid cases, two deaths were reported during the last 24 hours span. Covid cases in the state shot up sharply on Tuesday with 2,271 persons testing positive.
On Monday, India’s financial capital had recorded 676 cases but no deaths. The city reported cases in four digits for the first time since February 2, when Mumbai had reported 1,128 cases besides seven deaths.
Mumbai’s tally of COVID-19 cases increased to 10,71,776, on Tuesday while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,569. Notably, for the first time since March-end, the civic body has increased daily COVID-19 tests to over 15,000. Last week, municipal commissioner Iqbal Chahal had directed officials to increase testing. As per the bulletin, a total of 17,145 tests were conducted since Monday evening. The tally of tests conducted in the city so far rose to 1,72,07,993.
With a significant increase in daily tests, the positivity rate (cases found per 100 tests) in the city dipped to 0.072 per cent from 0.098 per cent on Monday.The number of active COVID-19 cases rose to 5,974. The caseload doubling period — time taken for the caseload to double — dipped to 986 days.
Out of 1,242 new patients, 1,168 are asymptomatic, while the 76 symptomatic patients were admitted to hospitals. Of these only 10 patients were put on oxygen support. Of 24,600 hospital beds earmarked for COVID-19 patients, only 254 beds are occupied. The recovery rate of COVID-19 patients was 98 per cent, as 506 patients recovered since Monday evening.
The number of recovered patients reached 10,46,233. The overall growth rate of cases in Mumbai was 0.070 per cent for the period between May 31 to June 6.
The active cases comprise 0.07 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.72 per cent, the ministry said. An increase of 1,881 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.67 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.12 per cent, according to the ministry.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,26,36,710, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.21 per cent. The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 194.43 crore.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. The seven new fatalities include five from Kerala and one each from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
(With PTI inputs)
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