Mumbai Live News: A day after recording 24,948 Covid-19 cases, the daily caseload in Maharashtra slightly increased to 27,971 on Saturday. The day also witnessed 62 deaths due to Covid-19. With this, the test positivity rate (TPR) – the number of positive cases detected when compared to the total tests conducted – stood at 16.4 per cent in Maharashtra. In Mumbai, of the 38,965 tests conducted on Saturday, 1,411 tested positive with a TPR of 3.6 per cent. The city has 12,187 active Covid-19 cases.
Meanwhile, the BMC is likely to increase allocation for health infrastructure in its upcoming budget for 2022-23, expected to be presented on February 3. In other news, three firemen were injured in an accident during a mock drill in a high-rise building in Matunga east. Also, the state unit of BJP has decided to take Prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ to 75,000 booths across Maharashtra Sunday.
After the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court expressed “shock” when a woman said her husband’s mental health condition was deteriorating because he had been kept in the central jail’s anda cell (solitary cell) for two years and four months, the jail authorities shifted him to another cell on Friday.
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-live-news-omicron-weather-covid-19-7746826/
