Mumbai: Despite the weekend, cases in the state and city continue to be on the higher side while death in the country continues to report a third day in a row.
The state reported 1,426 cases and 21 deaths.
Fatal reported by the state is the highest in 13 days since December 14, when the country reported 24 deaths.
With this, the total cost of the country’s case rose to 66.59 lakh and 1.41,454 deaths.
Active cases in the country cross the 10,000 mark.
Mumbai reported 788 cases and three deaths.
Active cases in Mumbai are also close to 5,000 marks.
The additional city commissioner said the city still reported more than 800 cases was the reason for worrying.
The daily level of peposititivity is 1.82% on Monday.
Even though it was a weekend, almost 43,400 tests were carried out.
“We cannot understand what caused a surge.
Is it driven by domestic travelers, people who come from abroad or celebration season and marriage are something that might be clearer in the coming days,” he said.
While the previous genome sequencing report showed that Delta was still the dominant variant, a report from the next cycle expected in two days could explain more light.
Commissioner of Kota I S Chahal called for a meeting of the Head of the Hospital and Senior Official on Monday and directed them to prepare the possibility of the third wave.
Kakani said all 10 Jumbo centers, including those upcoming, have been asked to prepare to operate and increase in the next few days.
“We have instructed five existing Jumbos to complete labor recruitment, check oxygen supplies, drug supplies and remain prepared in the first week of January,” he said.
The new jumbo in Kanjurmarg, Somaiya Grounds and Malda have been asked to inform how many beds they will be able to activate on January 8-10, he said.
The opposition leader Devendra Fadnivis said the country had hidden several Covid-19 deaths and also misused public money by making purchases at increased levels.
“There were a total of 40,671 deaths reported in April 2020 and 84,262 deaths in April 2021, which only 14,164 Covid deaths were shown.
There are no other excess death records,” Fadnivis said.