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Thane district now has 13 active Covid-19 cases

The death toll in Thane remained unchanged at 11,969 and the recovery count stood at 7,36,208

Thane district now has 13 active Covid-19 cases
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In Thane, two new cases of coronavirus have been detected raising its infection tally to 7,47,420, a health official told news agency PTI on Thursday. With the addition of the latest cases, currently there are 13 active Covid-19 cases in the district, which falls under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, he said. 

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The death toll in Thane remained unchanged at 11,969 and the recovery count stood at 7,36,208, he added. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Maharashtra registered 14 fresh coronavirus cases, while no new death linked to the infection was registered in the state, said the health department.


As per the health department bulletin, the state's overall Covid-19 tally rose to 81,36,992, while the death toll remained static at 1,48,420. Mumbai recorded only one case, it said. The state's coronavirus recovery rate stood at 98.17 per cent, while the fatality rate was 1.82 per cent.

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The bulletin stated that when the health department once again started screening travellers coming from abroad, 4,45,342 international passengers have arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports. Of these, 10,178 passengers did RT-PCR test and 24 positive swab samples were sent for genome sequencing, said the bulletin. All positive samples are referred for WGS (whole genome sequencing), it said.

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Genome sequencing is a sophisticated laboratory test that helps in mapping out the whole genetic makeup of a virus from a patient's swab sample and helps in detection of a new variant.

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