Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: Mumbai Reports 643 New COVID Cases, Positivity Rate In Delhi Declines To 2.87%
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With this, the national capital's case count increased to 18,40,919 and the death toll climbed to 25,952, the latest health bulletin stated.
The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago stood at 59,036, it said.
Delhi had on Thursday reported 2,668 cases with a positivity rate of 4.3 per cent, and 13 deaths.
The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28,867 on January 13.
The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Friday recorded 13,840 fresh coronavirus cases, a drop of 1,412 from a day ago, and 81 fresh fatalities, while 27,891 more patients recovered from the infection.
With these fresh additions, the state's COVID-19 tally reached 77,82,640, while the death toll increased to 1,42,940.
No fresh infection of the Omicron variant was reported in the state.
Pune reported 2,126 cases, the highest by any city in the state, followed by Nagpur (1,175), Pimpri-Chinchwad (1,089) and Mumbai (846).
The bulletin said 27,891 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative total to 74,91,759.
The state now has 1,44,011 active cases.
The coronavirus recovery rate in the state stood at 96.26 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.83 per cent.
The southern state had reported 42,677 COVID-19 cases on Thursday.
Notably, Kerala on Friday also reported 595 deaths which raised the total fatalities in Kerala to 57,296.
Of the deaths, 28 were reported in the last 24 hours, 197 were those which occurred in the last few days but were not recorded due to late receipt of documents, and 370 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the directions of the Supreme Court, the state government release said.
With 41,037 more people recovering from the virus since Thursday, the total recoveries reached 57,86,949.
As the number of recoveries was more than the new COVID-19 cases, the active cases in the state went down to 3,66,120, the release said.
12,009 new cases in Karnataka, 50 deaths
Bengaluru, Feb 5 (PTI) Karnataka on Saturday registered a further decline in daily coronavirus infections, as the state reported 12,009 new cases and 50 fatalities, taking the tally to 38,87,733 and toll to 39,300.
The state on Friday had reported 14,950 fresh infections.
There were 25,854 discharges today, taking the total number of recoveries to 37,39,197, a health bulletin said.
Of the new cases, 4,532 were from Bengaluru Urban that saw 10,420 people being discharged and 15 virus-related deaths.
The total number of active cases across the state is now 1,09,203.
While the positivity rate for the day stood at 9.04 per cent, the case fatality rate (CFR) was 0.41 per cent.
Of the 50 deaths, 15 are from Bengaluru Urban, Dakshina Kannada (5), Mysuru (4), Kalaburagi (3), Ballari, Belagavi, Raichur, Shivamogga, TUmakuru, Udupi and Uttara Kannada (2), followed by others.
After Bengaluru Urban, Belagavi recorded the second highest number of cases with 1,028, Mysuru 763, Ballari 481, Chitradurga 436, Shivamogga 419 and Hassan 413.
Bengaluru Urban district now has a total of 17,53,636 cases, Mysuru 2,26,369 and Tumakuru 1,57,474.
According to the bulletin, Bengaluru Urban tops the list among discharges with 16,91,234, followed by Mysuru 2,18,968 and Tumakuru 1,51,072.
Cumulatively, a total of 6,25,74,309 samples have been tested, of which 1,32,796 were on Saturday alone.
Tamil Nadu reports 7,524 new cases, 37 more fatalities
Chennai, Feb 5 (PTI) Fresh Covid-19 infections in Tamil Nadu continued to decline as 7,524 cases in the last 24 hours were added to the caseload that stood at 34,04,762. There were 37 more fatalities and they took the death toll to 37,733, said the Health Department.
Recoveries eclipsed new cases with 23,938 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 32,28,151 leaving 1,38,878 active infections, a bulletin said.
Chennai and Coimbatore accounted for the most of new cases with 1,223 and 1,020 cases respectively. The rest were spread across other districts. Perambalur recorded the least with 17 cases getting reported.
Those who tested positive include five returnees from domestic and overseas destinations.
A total of 1,26,701 samples were tested in the last 24 hours and they took the cumulative number of specimens examined to 6,24,01,480, the bulletin said.
On Friday, there were 9,916 infections and they pushed the number to 33,97,238 till date.
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