

Of the 74 new patients, only two are symptomatic and they have been admitted to hospital for treatment, it said. With 4,746 coronavirus tests conducted in the last 24 hours, their cumulative number rose to 1,70,16,218, the BMC bulletin said. Mumbai has reported nearly 50 per cent less cases due to a big drop in the number of coronavirus tests, a trend seen over the weekends. The city has reported three coronavirus deaths till May 16 as compared to just four fatalities in entire April. So far in May, 1,865 COVID-19 cases have been registered in the financial capital. Significantly, in the first 16 days of May, Mumbai has surpassed the entire April coronavirus case tally of 1,822. The city has not recorded any fresh coronavirus-linked death in the last 24 hours after logging one fatality each for the last three days. On Sunday, the financial capital had recorded 151 infections. The metropolis has logged two-digit cases after reporting infections in three digits since last Tuesday.

With this, the city's overall COVID-19 tally rose to10,61,688, while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,566, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a bulletin. Mumbai reported 74 new coronavirus cases on Monday, a drop of nearly 50 per cent from the previous day, while no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the metropolis, the city civic body said. The caseload doubling rate/period is 5,449 days. The overall growth rate of COVID-19 cases was 0.012 per cent between May 13 and 16. The city is left with 932 active COVID-19 patients now. Mumbai has a recovery rate of 98 per cent, as per the bulletin. The number of recovered patients jumped to 10, 41,348 with 122 patients being discharged from the hospitals on Tuesday. Only 25 out of 24,944 hospital beds earmarked for virus patients are occupied in the city. Of 158 new COVID-19 patients, only five were symptomatic and admitted to hospital, and only one of them was put on oxygen support, the BMC bulletin said. With 8,723 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the total of coronavirus tests conducted so far increased to 1,70,24,941. The city's caseload reached 10,61,846, while death toll remained the same at 19,566. Mumbai has logged a three-digit rise in cases on 13 days this month so far, but only three deaths. India's financial capital had recorded 74 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. Mumbai on Tuesday reported 158 new coronavirus infections, more than double the previous day's rise, but no fatalities on account of the pandemic, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. There are 9,581 beds for COVID-19 patients in Delhi hospitals and 117 (1.41 per cent) of them are occupied, it said. There are 1,414 containment zones in the city, it said. As many as 2,400 patients are under home isolation, the bulletin said.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Delhi stands at 2,910. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the third wave of the pandemic which was largely driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Delhi had touched the record high of 28,867 on January 13 this year during the third wave of the pandemic. On Saturday, the city logged 673 cases and four deaths, the highest single-day fatality count in over two months. On Sunday, 613 cases were recorded with a positivity rate of 2.74 per cent and three deaths. It was a Sunday on May 15 and Buddh Purnima, a gazetted holiday, on May 16.ĭelhi on Monday reported 377 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 3.37 per cent and one death. This could be partly due to the fact that fewer tests were conducted owing to the fact that the last two days were holidays. There has been a decline in daily cases over the last two days. A total of 11,731 tests were conducted a day ago, the department said in its latest bulletin. With this, the national capital's COVID-19 caseload increased to 19,01,128 and the death toll climbed to 26,198. Delhi on Tuesday recorded 393 fresh COVID-19 cases and two more deaths, while the positivity rate stood at 3.35 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.
