Mumbai: Because of the effects of weekends from less tests, daily calculations and Covid-19 toll roads in Mumbai and Maharashtra register a decline on Monday.
Cases in the state fell to 7,603, the lowest in a week.
Death also fell to 53, the lowest since June 5 (51).
Testing in the state fell to 1.75 lakh over the weekend, lower than an average of more than 2 lakh tests during weekdays.
Kaseload rose to 61.65 lakh and fatality to 1,26,024.
Cases in Mumbai fell below 500 (496) for the first time since July 6 (455).
Only nine deaths registered, took the toll so far to 15,636.
After two weeks managing more than 30,000 tests every day, BMC updates say 27,827 tests are carried out on Sundays.
Recognizing that the Covid-19 graph in Kolhapur has increased – 3,214 on July 10, 3,282 on July 11 and 3453 on Monday – authorities said the only explanation could be the arrival of delta waves in the district.
“While the second wave caused by the Delta variant began earlier in other districts, now that Kolhapur was affected,” said Pradeep kicked, which headed the epidemiological cells of public health wings.
Awate said the positive sample of kolhapur sent for genome analysis has shown a Delta variant in circulation ..