Coronavirus April 29 Live News: India reported 3,377 new Covid-19 cases, slightly up from yesterday’s number which was 3,303 — as of 8 am Friday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The official data says that the active cases recorded in the last 24 hours was 821 taking the total number of active cases to 17,801. The country also reported 60 deaths today taking the total death toll to 5,23,753.

Delhi Health Minster Dr Satyendra Jain had said on Thursday that the national capital has around 5000 active Covid cases but very few hospital admisssions. Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had also stated that the Ministry of Health will wait for recommendation from the Covid working group of NTAGI to begin the vaccination of kids aged 5 to 12.

As many as 12.38 million Shanghai residents, nearly half the population of China's financial hub, are now in lower-risk areas, meaning they can leave their homes, the government said on Friday. Shanghai, battling China's biggest-ever COVID-19 outbreak, put the entire city into lockdown at the beginning of the month, though it has cautiously lifted some restrictions on residential areas that have gone two weeks without a positive case. The city classifies each housing unit according to three levels of risk, designating those that have not seen a COVID-19 positive case for 14 days as “prevention zones”, allowing residents to go out for “appropriate” activities.

The official data suggests that the active cases comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent. An increase of 821 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

After recording more than 100 coronavirus cases for two straight days, Mumbai reported 90 new infections on Thursday, taking the overall tally to 10,59,635, but no fresh death linked to the disease was registered, the city civic body said.

The city has reported less than 100 daily COVID-19 cases after a gap of two days. A day ago, the financial capital had recorded 112 cases, the highest daily count since February 25, while 102 coronavirus patients were detected on Tuesday.

With no coronavirus-linked fatalities reported in the last 24 hours, the death toll remained unchanged at 19,562, said a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulletin.

As many as 8,862 new COVID-19 tests were carried out in the city, taking their cumulative number to 1,68,76,617, said the bulletin said.

The city's positivity rate, or cases detected per 100 tests, was 0.011 per cent, while the coronavirus recovery rate was 98 per cent, it said.

Out of the 90 new cases, 87 patients were asymptomatic, while the remaining three were admitted in hospitals, but one of them was on oxygen support, the BMC said.

With 91 more patients recovering from the infection during the day, the count of recoveries jumped to 10,39,511, leaving the metropolis with 562 active COVID-19 cases, the bulletin said.

The case doubling rate of Mumbai was 8,861 days, while the growth rate of COVID-19 infections between April 22 and April 27 stood at 0.007 per cent, it said.

At present, out of 26,044 hospital beds earmarked for coronavirus patients, only 10 beds are occupied in the city, according to the bulletin.

The metropolis has been free of sealed buildings and containment zones for several weeks now.

On January 7, 2022, Mumbai had reported the highest-ever 20,971 cases during the third coronavirus wave which started from December 21, 2021.