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MUMBAI: One person died from Covid-19 in the city in the last 24 hours. The number of new deaths by Covid recorded in a single day has not been so low since the start of the pandemic in March last year. During the worst time, the city has recorded up to 136 deaths in a single day.
The woman, aged between 40 and 60, had no comorbidities, the civic body said, adding that the total Covid toll in Bombay has reached 15,947. The city’s accumulated coveted mortality rate now stands at 2.15%. Bombay has reported single-digit deaths for three weeks. Additional city commissioner Suresh Kakani said the city’s mortality rate had been below 1% for most of the second wave. “The key is for people to come to hospitals early,” he said.
Bombay had reported the first positive case of Covid on March 11, 2020 and the first death six days later (March 17). Deaths remained in single digits until April 10, before starting to rise to double digits. By June 2020, the city had seen deaths in three digits. The majority of deaths recorded in a single day was 136, reported on June 20th. During the second wave of this year, daily deaths have never exceeded double digits in the city.
Cases also remained below 300 for Mumbai, but there was a marginal increase from Saturday. The city reported 294 new Covid cases on Sunday, up from 262 on Saturday. Covid’s cumulative count in Mumbai has reached 7.41.164.
The state continued to see a drop in daily case detection. A total of 4,141 cases were reported on Sunday, bringing the state sum of Covid to 64,24,651. The state also reported 145 deaths, reaching 1,35,962. The number of active cases in the state fell to 53,182, while that in Bombay reached 2,877. Satara district recorded 45 deaths, the highest in the state. Balasaheb Patil, the district’s guardian minister, told TOI that more tracking, testing and immediate treatment would be done.
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