Mumbai Jan 19 PTI Mumbai on Wednesday reported 6032 new coronavirus positive cases 117 less as compared to the previous day and 12 fresh fatalities the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC said With this the citys infection tally rose to 1017999 and death toll to 16488 while the recovery count rose to 966985 it said in a bulletin The city witnessed a dip in the number of cases after reporting 6149 cases on Tuesday The daily fatality count however climbed to 12 after seven on Tuesday In the last 24 hours 60291 tests were conducted in the city as against the over 47700 tests on Tuesday The positivity rate dipped to 10 per cent from 2189 per cent The overall test count has reached 14778095 the BMC said Mumbai has 31856 active COVID-19 cases while the case doubling rate is 66 days A total of 18241 patients recovered in the last 24-hours and Mumbais recovery rate stands at 95 per cent Out of the total number of new cases nearly 84 per cent means 5067 cases are asymptomatic Only 538 new patients have been hospitalised while just 103 are on oxygen support the bulletin added It also said that 5058 of the total 38109 hospital beds which is around 133 per cent of the total hospital beds are occupied in the city The overall growth rate of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai is 103 per cent for the period between January 12 and 18 it said As per the bulletin Mumbai has 54 sealed buildings but zero containment zones in slums and chawls Mumbai had logged 20971 daily COVID-19 cases on January 7 2022 the highest since the pandemic broke out in March 2020 Last year Mumbai had reported the highest 11163 daily cases on April 4 while the highest 90 fatalities were witnessed on May 1 PTI KK NP NP

Mumbai Nov 30 PTI Top stories from western region at 5 pm BOM1 MH-OMICRON-TRAVELLERS-BMC Omicron scare 1000 travelers from African nations landed in Mumbai in last 15 days 100 tested says BMC Mumbai At least 1000 travelers landed in Mumbai in the last fortnight from African countries where the potentially more transmissible Omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected a senior official of the city civic body saidBOM10 MH-WAZE-COMMISSION NIA custody most traumatic time of my life Sachin Waze tells probe panel Mumbai Dismissed police officer Sachin Waze on Tuesday told an inquiry commission that the time he spent in the National Investigation Agencys NIA custody following arrest in the Antilia bomb scare case was the most traumatic time of his life and claimed he had signed various documents under duressBOM7 MH-TWITTER-AGRAWAL-IIT BOMBAY IIT Bombay congratulates alumnus Parag Agrawal on elevation as Twitter CEO Mumbai Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on Tuesday congratulated its alumnus Parag Agrawal on his elevation as CEO of the microblogging giant TwitterBOM8 MH-DESHMUKH-COMMISSION Corruption allegations Anil Deshmukh appears before inquiry commission Mumbai Former Maharashtra home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday appeared before a commission probing corruption allegations levelled against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir SinghBOM2 MP-CM-TANTYA BHIL MP minister calls CM Chouhan reincarnation of Tantya Bhil Cong terms it insult of tribals Bhopal A minister in the Madhya Pradesh BJP government has stirred a controversy by claiming that state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was an incarnation of tribal revolutionary Tantya Bhil PTI KRK KRK KRK