MUMBAI: It is summer and tourists are returning to their favorite hotspots as the cases of COVID-19 come down. In Mumbai, the zoo has been receiving a lot of visitors, young and old alike. And on a hot summer day, visitors had a great time as they saw a tiger swimming in a pond inside a zoo enclosure, trying to beat the heat.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra recorded 113 fresh coronavirus cases on Tuesday, up from 72 a day earlier and four deaths linked to the infection, while 127 patients recovered from the disease, the health department said. With these additions, the state’s total Covid-19 tally rose to 78,75,324, while the death toll rose to 1,47,820, the department said in a bulletin. On Monday, the state had recorded 41 cases and zero deaths. All four Covid-19 deaths were reported from Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation areas of adjoining Thane district, the bulletin said. The case fatality rate in the state stood at 1.78 per cent.
Mumbai city reported 52 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, which is almost half of the statewide tally. The health department said 127 people recovered from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking their cumulative count to 77,26,790 and leaving the state with 714 active cases.
(with agency input)