Mumbai: While the Covid case seems to have a plateau in Maharashtra with an average of 3,500 detection a day, fixed concerns to Mumbai, where cases edged closer to 500 on Thursday.
According to the renewal of the Covid state on Thursday, the country recorded 3,320 cases, including 498 in Mumbai.
The state reported 61 deaths, where five were reported in Mumbai.
With this, the total case expenses rose to 65.34 lakh and death reached 1,38,725.
However, the BMC dashboard for Covid showed that the total number of beds for Covid increased from 18.467 on September 15 to 19,326 on September 22.
While only 10% of these beds were occupied last week, the occupancy fell to 9.6% on September 22.
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Dr.
Prince Surana said the number of patients at Chembur Hospital had increased in the past week.
“We reduced our covid beds from 69 to 35 weeks ago when our occupancy fell below 10, but on Thursday we were full,” said Dr.
Surana.
BMC officials, however, are not too disturbed.
“We have infrastructure in place to deal with improvements,” said an official.
The number of critical patients increased from 363 per week back to 375 on September 22.
Meanwhile, active cases in the state fell further to 39,191 while numbers rose to 5,562 in Mumbai.
Senior officials from the state government said that even though the continued constant case in the state, the district had been asked to focus on increasing the number of tests.
“The next 10 days will be very important to detect any spread of spread because the ganpati festival that has just ended,” the official said.
At the state level, districts such as Pune and Ahmednagar continue to increase the number of high cases, on almost every day this district adds a higher case than Mumbai.
Death in the Ahmednagar district, Solapur and Satara were also higher than reported by Mumbai.
“The situation is comfortable at this time.
However, the district is ready to maintain health infrastructure and store all essential drugs in the event of a surge,” the official said.
COVID case daily number of inches closer to 500 signs in Mumbai
