MUMBAI: The daily test positivity rate in Mumbai was at the lowest in the second wave – 1.7% — on Tuesday as 568 cases were detected from the 32,307 tests conducted in a 24-hour span.
The rate was 1.9% on Monday.
The state daily positivity rate was 3.9% on Tuesday, with 8,470 new cases from the 2.1 lakh tests that were conducted.
A day after reporting a dip, cases and deaths reported an increase on Tuesday.
The state reported 8,470 new cases and 188 deaths, taking its total caseload to 59.8 lakh and with the addition of 294 deaths, the total toll rose to 1,18,795.
BMC officials said the daily caseload was below 600 for the second consecutive day, while daily deaths had risen slightly to 10.
Since March 2020, the city has recorded 7.2 lakh cases and 15,315 deaths.
The “thick tail” of the city’s Covid graph has experts worried as the daily caseload in other cities such as Pune and Delhi have dropped drastically.
The recovery rate (95%) in Mumbai is lower than the national figure of 96.5%.
On the bright side, the all-India daily positivity rate is at 2.56% (less than 5% for 15 consecutive days), while the corresponding figure in Mumbai has been under 3% for two weeks now.
In the last two days, the daily positivity rate has been under 2%.
Of 18,432 active cases in Mumbai on Monday morning, 4,274 had symptoms and 894 others were critical.
Until a month ago, the number of critical patients was over 2,500.
Also, demand for hospital beds has dropped, said a doctor from a BMC hospital.
The number of occupied ICU beds was 53%.