Coronavirus situations in Mumbai have been on a surge for the previous couple of days and on Sunday, as a lot of as 3,775 viral situations have been recorded in the city. A report by The IE noted that this quantity is the highest single-day rise in Mumbai’s situations ever considering the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic hit the state final year in March. Prior to this, the highest quantity of Coronavirus situations recorded have been on Friday as the city saw 3,063 new situations. This has taken the all round COVID-19 count of Mumbai to 3.62 lakh.
Currently, there are 23,448 active situations in Mumbai and in the final 24 hours, these situations have elevated by 2,113. The report highlighted that the every day caseload in Mumbai has risen by 2.41 occasions in the 1st 21 days of March.
Notably, the death price has not elevated in the city. Since February this year, the every day death price has dropped to single digits. Last year in October, the city had witnessed 40 deaths in a day. On Sunday, as a lot of as 10 deaths have been reported in the city and nine patients amongst these have been above the age of 60 years. The report mentioned that following October, the recovery price has also elevated and has come to 91 per cent as against 86 per cent final year in the course of the peak.
Many officers have been directed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ramp up the testing to 50,000 tests in two days from 25,000 tests getting performed so far. In the final 24 hours, 24,220 tests have been performed for the viral infection. The city has a positivity price of 16 per cent, a jump from 5.2 per cent recorded 20 days ago. BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal also asked individuals to vaccinate 1 lakh beneficiaries in a day. As of now, 40,000 beneficiaries are getting inoculated per day.
The report mentioned that private hospital beds have also been elevated by 2,400 beds, which Chahal directed on the back of elevated hospitalisations. It is anticipated that in the next couple of days, the situations will surge and cross 5,000. The devoted Covid overall health care centres and hospitals along with jumbo facilities have 12,694 beds ideal now. The report noted that 50 per cent of these facilities are occupied. Of total 1,539 ICU beds, 61 per cent are occupied.
Private and government hospitals have been directed to not admit asymptomatic patients and take only these in who have been referred from the BMC war space barring emergency Covid-19 case circumstances. All asymptomatic patients will have to go for house isolation.