15 April,2023 07:23 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Mumbai on Saturday reported 266 new Covid-19 cases taking the overall tally of the infections in the city to 1,160,309, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said in a health bulletin.
The city has been witnessing a spike in the coronavirus infections lately. The city now has 1702 active coronavirus infections.
According to data, Mumbai's overall growth rate of cases between April 7 and April 14 was 0.0189 per cent, and the recovery rate stood at 98.2 per cent.
So far, 188,20,634 Covid-19 tests have been conducted in the city, including 1,765 samples taken in the past 24 hours.
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The recovery rate is 98.2 per cent and the overall growth rate of cases between April 7 and April 13 is 0.0189 per cent.
The caseload doubling time is 3,551 days, as per civic data.
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The BMC had made masks mandatory inside civic-run hospitals since April 10 and had urged senior citizens and those with comorbidities to wear masks amid a rise in cases since the start of the month.
