Mumbai: The number of cases of Covid-19 detected in the state and city is slightly increased on Saturday.
The state continues to add below 5,000 cases, while the city added almost 400 cases.
The country calculates 4,831 new cases and 126 deaths, taking the total cases to 64.52 lakh and the death toll be 1,37,026 since the arrival of the Coronavirus novel in March last year.
Cases in the city continue to rise for fourth consecutive days, with 391 newly registered cases.
The test level of the test reached 1% after several weeks ranged from 0.7% and 0.9%.
“We are still carrying out a large number of Covid-19 tests every day.
But the increase could be a result of reducing restrictions,” BMC Health Officer BMC Dr.
Mangala Gomare.
The average number of Covid-19 tests in this city is 35,000 per day, with BMC increasing testing on certain days to bring it to around 50,000.
Dr.
Shashank Joshi, who is a member of the state government assignment unit in Covid-19, said that the supervision of the genome in the city has shown that there are only three main strains circulating here, namely, Delta, Kappa and Delta-Plus.
“There is no novel tension that can cause a big threat today.
However, we need to be in our guards and avoid visiting all the crowded places, and observing the appropriate behavior of Covid,” Dr.
Joshi said.
Four Death Covid-19 newly registered on City, took the death toll to 15,972 since the beginning of the pandemic here.
Minister of Medical Education Amit Deshmukh said that a little increase in some districts concerning and feared this increase would increase and turn into the third wave.
He appealed to the public to follow all Covid protocols 19 During the celebration season.
He directs the administration not to let it go down and take precautions to reduce the severity of the third wave.
Active cases in the state and city are slightly increased.
The total active case in the country rose to 51,821, where 3,406 was in town.