Mumbai: After 12 days, detecting a daily Covid case in the creeping city passed 300 to 319 on Friday, and his death also rose to six for the first time since August 14.
Mumbai, by chance, did 56,566 tests in the last 24 hours, the highest since the pandemic began.
On the contrary, the state reported a significant decline on Friday in cases and deaths – 4,365 and 105, respectively, took a total caseload to 64.2 lakh and the death count to 1.4 lakh.
The overall number of the city is 7.4 lakh cases and 15,941 deaths.
BMC officials connect a slight increase in the testing of 50-thousand pluses for the past two days.
On Friday, almost 38,000 of 56,566 tests were the remaining fast antigen tests and RT-PCR.
On Thursday, 52,482 tests were run.
“We decided to increase testing as a trial as in the future we might have to increase our daily test capacity,” said the additional Commissioner BMC Suresh Kakani.
BMC has done around 35,000 tests for a week, while the number of dips over the weekend.
Dr.
Shashank Joshi, a member of the Covid Negara Task Force, said: “Daily Kaseload in Mumbai has not been reduced as much as it has, say, Delhi.
This proves the endemicity of the virus in Mumbai and underlines the need to take a vaccine and wore a mask.” State government officials say yet There was a significant increase in the case in the first week since the sidewalk easing, but the Ministry of Health maintained a close watch.
“The main challenge is during the festival,” said the official.