Mumbai: There is a 37% increase in the Covid-19 Weekly Kaseload in the city, with 2,554 cases registered between 18 and December 24 as against 1,447 cases between December 11 and 17.
Although there is no official word about the spread of omicrons in the community, the daily calculation in Mumbai Continue to rise with 673 cases on Friday.
Kaseload has grown in more than 15% every day in the past few days.
Tally Maharashtra grew proportionally to 1,410 cases on Friday, with 70% of cases originating from Mumbai and the surrounding municipality (962).
The daily testing level in Mumbai rose from 0.5% at the beginning of the week to 1.7% on Friday.
However, Covid’s death continues to be low, with Maharashtra registering 12 deaths, including one in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, BMC on Friday said the actor’s genome sequencing report Kareena Kapoor-Khan was negative for the Omicron variant.
Kapoor was also posted on Instagram which he tried negative for Covid-19 on Friday.
While thanking his family and friends for their support through his strength, he also thanked BMC to “be very amazing and fast …” The number of active cases in Mumbai rose sharply to 3,227 from about half two weeks ago.
The state has 8,426 active cases.
However, the number of closed buildings in Mumbai remains steady at 14.
Only 7% of 15,299 covid hospital beds in the city occupied and the number of critical cases has not increased (145) in a few weeks.
“While the number of covid patients is increasing, inpatient is certainly not,” said Dr.
Gautam Bhansali, who is a member of the State Task Force in Covid-19.
The assignment member of the Unit Dr Rahul Pandit said the increase in cases in Mumbai was “very concerned”.
He said there was an urgent need to increase the sequencing of the genome and identify dominant tensions.
“Our public health response will depend on identifying dominant tension.
If Delta, we will expect an increase in hospitalization in the next few weeks.
If it is an Omicron, then we need a more stringent policy with zero tolerance against without masks and needs for Comply with the behavior that matches Covid, “said Dr.
Pandit.