Medical checkup team check temperature of residents in MumbaiThe Maharashtra government announced extension of the general lockdown until July 31 with an aim to contain the Covid-19 surge. The notification issued by the state government has also restricted inter-district travel between municipal corporations within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) to that for office purposes and essential activities like medical reasons.
*Navi Mumbai, which had the second highest positive cases till now, has 8,279 cases, including 207 on Wednesday. Nine deaths have taken the toll to 269. A total of 4,913 patients have recovered.
*Update at 10.05am: Record single-day spike of 24,879 Covid-19 cases pushes India's tally to 7,67,296; death toll 21,129 with 487 new fatalities, reports PTI quoting health ministry
*ANI update at 9.17am: A total of 1,07,40,832 samples tested for Covid-19 till 8th July. Of these, 2,67,061 samples were tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
*Cases in the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) breached the 10,000-mark on Wednesday, placing it just behind Thane city's 11,000-plus Covid-19 cases.
* Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation recorded 471 fresh coronavirus cases, taking its tally to 10,351. Seven deaths were reported, adding up to 158.
*The daily swab testing in KDMC is now in the range of 700-1,000. The only silver lining for Kalyan-Dombivli vis-à-vis Thane is that it has a 1.52% death rate as compared to Thane’s 3.67%.
*Thane is currently on top of the Covid charts in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) with 11,705 cases. It added 410 new cases on Wednesday.
*Two days after reporting over 5,000 cases in a day, Maharashtra on Wednesday added 6,603 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total cases to 2,23,724. Also, a day after Mumbai reported just 785 cases, the lowest since May 12, the city reported nearly double the number of cases. With 1,347 fresh cases, Mumbai contributed 20% of cases in the state, taking its total tally to 87,856 cases on Wednesday.
*Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) has 6,599 cases with 146 new cases on Wednesday. One death was reported, taking the toll to 130.