Mumbai, Jan 18 (PTI) Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 14 fresh coronavirus cases, while no new death linked to the infection was registered in the state, said the health department.
With this, the state’s overall COVID-19 tally rose to 81,36,992, while the death toll remained static at 1,48,420, said a health department bulletin.
Mumbai recorded only one case, it said.
The state’s coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98.17 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.82 per cent.
The bulletin said since December 24, when the health department once again started screening travellers coming from overseas, 4,45,342 international passengers have arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports.
Of these, RT-PCR test was done on 10,178 passengers and 24 positive swab samples were sent for genome sequencing, said the bulletin.
All positive samples are referred for WGS (whole genome sequencing), it said.
Genome sequencing is a sophisticated laboratory test that can map out the whole genetic makeup of a virus from a patient’s swab sample and help in detection of a new variant.
Out of these 24 RT-PCR positive patients identified till date, Maharashtra accounted for 12 and of them six were from Mumbai, three from Pune, one each from Navi Mumbai, Amravati and Sangli. Also, four coronavirus positive patients were from Gujarat, two from Kerala and one from Goa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Odisha and Telangana, said the health department.
The bulletin said 24 patients recovered from the coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking their overall count to 79,88,445 and leaving the state with 127 active cases.
It said 13,977 new coronavirus tests were conducted in the state, pushing up their cumulative tally to 8,61,33,166. PTI PR RSY RSY
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