Mumbai: The state added 5,753 Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the fifth consecutive day of over 5,000 cases in a 24-hour period. The overall tally stood at 17,80,208.
Active cases, which had dropped below 80,000 last week for the first time since July 4, rose again to touch 81,512.
The city also saw an increase in daily detections and active cases, reporting more than 1,000 new cases for the third day in a row. An addition of 1,135 cases took the tally to 2,51,804, while active cases jumped to 12,448 from the previous day’s 10,656.
The BMC disagreed with the city figures provided by the state government, saying that at 9,770, the active cases had remained below 10,000. The doubling rate, which had touched 310 days, dropped to 258 days with the increase in daily detections.
There was no surge in deaths, with the state reporting 50, a dozen fewer than Saturday’s, and the city registering 19 in a 24-hour period.
This story is from the November 23, 2020 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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