Mumbai surpasses China in Covid-19 cases, fatalities
Team Udayavani, Jul 7, 2020, 1:35 PM IST
Mumbai: In yet another disturbing development, Mumbai surpassed China after its tally of Covid 19 cases and fatality rose to 85,724 and 4,938 respectively on Tuesday according to statistics aggregator Worldometer.
Compared to Mumbai, China has a total of 4,634 fatalities and 83,565 patients.
While the source of the pandemic has its roots in China, it has been reporting single-digit new cases daily. Mumbai, on the other hand has been recording new patients in excess of 1,100 every day since July 1.
The development came a day after the Maharashtra with 211,987 cases zoomed past Turkey (205,758 cases), which currently ranks 14 on the Worldometer.
On June 4, Maharashtra had shot past Germany (198,064) and South Africa (205,721), both currently ranked at 16 and 15 respectively on the Worldometer.
Last month, the state had whizzed past two major affected countries like Canada and France in terms of total patients, besides recording more daily cases than the UK.
Maharashtra”s latest Covid-19 tally is 9,026 deaths and 211,987 patients, including 87,681 active cases, but with a mortality rate of 4.26 per cent and an encouraging recovery rate of 54.37.
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