Coronavirus live updates: New peak of 8.97L Covid tests done in last 24 hours

Pune overtakes Mumbai in number of Covid-19 cases.

Pune has more Covid-19 cases than Mumbai. On Monday, Pune had 1.32 lakh cases while Mumbai had 1.29 lakh infections. However, its death toll is half of Mumbai's. While Pune has reported 3,247 deaths, Mumbai has 7,173 deaths.

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Despite the surge in testing, the growth factor in new cases (everyday’s new cases divided by the previous day’s cases) has also remained largely constant at around 1 percentage point while the overall active cases and fatality rate have started declining. Values of less than one are read as a decline. The daily positivity rate on Sunday dropped to 7.9% with 57,981 new cases detected. The cumulative rate has been hovering around 8.8%.

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Even with such a high level of testing, the positivity has remained low, 8.81% compared to the weekly national average, 8.84%: Ministry of health

A new peak of 8.97 lakh Covid-19 tests done in the last 24 hours: Ministry of health

The Covid-19 positivity rate has stabilised at around 8% over the last fortnight even as daily testing has increased by almost 10 times as compared to last month. This has resulted in India crossing a total of over three crore samples tested cumulatively.

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