The state conducted 1.95 lakh tests on Monday. The state’s total caseload climbed to 61.13 lakh and the toll rose to 1,23,531 with the addition of 224 old deaths. On the other hand, the daily deaths in the city remained at 10 after soaring to over 20 for the last five days. While the positivity rate was 1.59% on the previous day, the weekly growth rate of Covid-19 cases in Mumbai too dropped to 0.08% and the doubling rate improved to 822 days. The city’s total tally of Covid-19 cases since March 2020 stands at 7.25 lakh while the total toll has climbed to 15,564 so far.
The number of critical patients in the city has dropped to 752 patients, and more than 50% of the ICU beds earmarked for Covid-19 are vacant. Seven Hills Hospital in Andheri is the only civic facility with over 700 in-patients. “We have been conducting over 30,000 tests daily and the positivity rate in rapid antigen tests is almost zero,” said a senior BMC doctor. CM Uddhav Thackeray said that even though cases have dropped, we can’t let our guards down. “When the first wave dipped, we thought the pandemic was over, but the second wave hit us hard. We can’t afford the same negligence again,” he said.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/mumbai-cases-drop-in-city-but-state-a-concern/articleshow/84186629.cms
