Covid-19: Deaths fall to single digit in Mumbai, lowest in 76 days – Times of India

MUMBAI: Daily Covid deaths in the city on Tuesday dropped to seven. A single-digit toll was last recorded 76 days ago on March 24 (6). Overall fatalities here crossed the 15,000-mark since the pandemic began in March 2020.

But the number of deaths recorded in the state nearly doubled from Monday to 295 on Tuesday, taking the toll to 1,01,172, including 407 past fatalities that the state added on Tuesday. Fortunately, daily cases in the state stayed under 11,000 (10,891) for the second day in a row.
In the city, 682 new cases were registered. Over 7 lakh of the city’s 1.3-crore population have now tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus since the pandemic began.
“A drop in daily toll was not unexpected since the number of ICU admissions began to drop over 21 days ago,” said BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani. The number of deaths was higher earlier because many patients reported late for ICU admissions. “But the situation has improved in the last month,” he added. The number of critical patients in Mumbai’s hospitals has halved in the last month; as of June 7, 1,149 patients were critical.
The positivity rate for the second day in a row in Mumbai was below 3%, the recovery rate at 75%, the virus’s growth rate was 0.12% and the doubling rate was 543 days—up from 30 on some days in April. The active cases in the state dropped to 1.6 lakh, of which 17,642 were in Mumbai.
In BMC-run Sion Hospital, where at the height of the second wave in April, extra oxygen-support benches were put up apart from the 365 oxygen-supported beds to accommodate the patient rush, barely three or four new admissions take place. “We have roughly 100 patients admitted right now and there are no deaths on most days,” said dean Dr Mohan Joshi.
Officials said the state too should report a further decline in deaths as critical cases are reducing. “We are expecting that the fatalities in the state will drop further by next week,” said an official.