Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 44 new coronavirus cases that raised the tally of infections to 11,54,478, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. As per a bulletin issued by the civic body, the death toll remained unchanged at 19,741 and the count of recoveries reached 11,34,341 after 83 patients recovered from the infection in the past 24 hours. There has been a slight rise in infections, as the city had reported 25 cases on Monday. With a positivity rate of 98.2 per cent and doubling rate of 12,014 days, the city now has 396 active cases, the bulletin said. As many as 3,769 swab samples were tested in the past 24 hours, it said.

Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 188 fresh coronavirus cases and two deaths linked to the infection, while 293 more patients recovered in the state, the health department said. With these additions, the state’s overall Covid-19 tally rose to 81,33,682, while the toll increased to 1,48,396, said the department in a bulletin. Pune city and Satara district recorded one coronavirus-linked death each, it said. The coronavirus recovery rate in the state stood at 98.16 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.82 per cent.