Mumbai: 692 Covid-19 cases recorded in the last 24 hrs in city

The city recorded 692 fresh Covid cases on Wednesday, taking the cumulative tally to 7,22,218. The financial capital also recorded 25 deaths due to Covid in the last 24 hours. With this, the fatality count stands at 15,451 as BMC data.

A total of 680 patients recovered and were discharged from various Covid care centres and hospitals on Wednesday, taking the recovery count to 6,6,105. With this, the recovery rate of the city continues to remain at 96%. Currently, there are only 8351 active cases.
The doubling rate has also declined to 716 days, while the weekly growth rate of infection in the city has remained at 0.09 per cent.

Meanwhile, there has been a rise in Covid cases in the state in the last three days. On Wednesday, the state recorded 9,771 fresh cases, whereas the state saw 8,623 new cases on Tuesday and on Monday, 6,727 cases were registered.
On Wednesday, the state recorded 141 COVID-19 deaths, taking the number of total fatalities across the state to 1,21,945. Total 231 COVID-19 deaths were reported on Tuesday, while Monday 101 deaths were reported across Maharashtra. The number of active cases in the state currently stands at 1,16,364.

Total. 10,353 patients were discharged on Wednesday, pushing the tally of those recovered and discharged to date to 58,19,901. The recovery rate in the state has jumped to 96.02%.