Mumbai: Mumbai on Tuesday once again witnessed a massive spurt in daily Covid-19 caseload with the financial capital reporting as many as 10,860 fresh infections – 34 per cent higher than Monday – and 2 deaths. With a massive spike in fresh infections and deaths, the number of active cases rose to 47,476 in Mumbai and the toll stood at 16,381.
However, city’s health department has said that 89 per cent patients in Mumbai are asymptomatic. Mumbai had reported 7,928 fresh Covid-19 cases with a test positivity rate of 16.3 per cent.
#CoronavirusUpdates
4th January, 6:00pmPositive Pts. (24 hrs) – 10860
Discharged Pts. (24 hrs) – 654Total Recovered Pts. – 7,52,012
Overall Recovery Rate – 92%
Total Active Pts. – 47476
Doubling Rate – 110 Days
Growth Rate (28 Dec – 3Jan)- 0.63%#NaToCorona– My Mumbai, your BMC (@mybmc) January 4, 2022
With this, Mumbai continues to stare at stricter Covid curbs as earlier in the day Mayor Kishori Pednekar said that if the daily Covid-19 cases cross the 20,000-mark, a lockdown will be imposed in the city as per the Union government’s rules.
Talking to reporters at her office in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters, Pednekar suggested that citizens wear triple-layer masks while travelling in public buses and local trains.
She also appealed to them to get vaccinated at the earliest and follow all Covid-19-related standard operating procedures (SOPs).
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Meanwhile, 1,104 COVID19 fresh cases were reported in Pune today, taking the positivity rate to 18 per cent. In the view of the frequent surge in daily caseload, the administration has decided to shut schools for Classes 1 to 8 in Pune district till January 30.
Maharashtra has notched a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases and of its variant Omicron in the past few weeks with Mumbai continuing to bear the maximum caseload.
The state Covid-19 count shot up again from 11,877 on Sunday to 12,160 on Monday, and fatalities also increased from nine a day earlier to 11.
After recording 50 Omicron infections on Sunday, Maharashtra logged 68 more cases of the new variant, taking up the state tally from 510 to 578.
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