No Covid-19 death in Mumbai for 3rd time this month

MUMBAI: For the third time in December, the city did not register a single Covid-19 fatality during a 24-hour period.
On Saturday, the city reported 274 cases and zero deaths. For the past 140 days, the city has been reporting Covid deaths in single digits, a sign that the second wave is behind it.
Through the length of the pandemic, it will be the fourth occasion when Mumbai did not record any Covid fatality in a day’s window. The city’s cumulative Covid caseload has reached 7,66,729, while deaths have touched 16,363.
The state continued with its decline of new cases. It added 854 cases to push the cumulative Covid load to 66,48,694. Eleven deaths were reported to take the toll to 1,41,340. Even as Mumbai did not report any death, six fatalities were reported from Mumbai Metropolitan Region, of which two were from Mira-Bhayander and one each from Thane, Ulhasnagar, Vasai-Virar and Panvel.
Ahmednagar reported four deaths while Pune recorded one.
Active cases in the state (6,942) and Mumbai (1,948) saw a marginal rise.