Mumbai: Because the number of tests improved after the Diwali break, the Covid-19 daily calculation of cases in Mumbai and Maharashtra registered a slight increase on Tuesday.
Maharashtra enrolled 982 cases, including 274 cases from Mumbai.
Death increased in Maharashtra from 15 on Monday to 27 on Tuesday.
Mumbai only registered one death – the daily toll was zero on October 17 and one on September 21.
“We do more than 31,000 tests and plan to increase it further now after the festival season ends,” said the Supplementary Municipal Commissioner BMC Suresh Kakani on Monday.
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The daily testing level continues less than 1%, he added.
Cases in Mumbai rose slightly after restrictions on trips by local trains relaxed on August 16, with calculations reaching 500-600 a day.
The weekly growth rate of Covid infection in the city has dropped another decimal (0.03%) to the level in the July-August period.
Only 13 buildings were sealed throughout the city today, showed a pause in infection.
In Maharashtra, cases have been under 1,000 for the fifth day in a row.
Compared to 60,000 tests on Sunday, 96,866 tests were carried out throughout the state on Monday.
Only Mumbai (460), Pune (306) and Nashik (141) (141) regions that record three-digit tally, while the Akola and Nagpur regions have less than 10 cases.
The active case in the state fell to 13,311, including 3,559 in Mumbai.