Mumbai News highlights: Mumbai on Wednesday reported 255 new Covid-19 cases, 439 recoveries, and zero deaths. Almost a month into resumption of offline school for all classes, only 54 per cent students are actually attending classes physically, data collated by the Education Department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) showed. As per the data, out of a total of 6,58,299 students studying in 2,278 schools, 4,21,713 students had consent from parents to attend offline school. But when it came to actually attending the school physically, only 3,55,917 students are turning up.
Meanwhile, Mumbai did not record any new death linked to Covid-19 for a second time in 2022 on Tuesday, while 235 more people tested positive for the infection, the city civic body said. According to a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin, with new addition, the tally of coronavirus infections in the city jumped to 10,54,477, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,685.
According to the Annual Crime report 2021, as many as 64,656 criminal cases were registered in Mumbai in 2021, a jump of 26 per cent from 2020, mainly due to a rise in offences related to violation of Covid-19 measures.
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-news-live-covid-cases-deaths-vaccination-bmc-bappi-lahiri-passes-away-7775933/
