Mumbai: Only for the second time this year, Mumbai recorded zero Death Covid Daily on Saturday.
Another Zero-Death day for the city is October 17.
Likewise, last year, on March 26, zero death was reported.
In other developments, the state reported an increase in daily detection and death on Saturday compared to the last few days.
The state added 807 cases and 20 deaths, took the total case to 66.43 lakh and the death rose to 1.41,243.
On Saturday, Mumbai registered the highest daily calculation of this week with 246 cases.
The BMC daily update shows that the count of seven days (December 5-11) was 1,472 – almost 16% higher than 1,238 cases in the previous week (November 28-December 4).
The BMC Public Health Doctor said this was due to an increase in testing because the emergence of an omicron variant was very contagious.
Over the past few days, this city has done more than 40,000 tests on the average and the average daily testing has been less than 0.6%.
Active cases of state and city too, have reported increases since the last two days.
The active case in the state is 6,452 where 1,808 is in Mumbai.
“The Covid-19 situation in the city is stable.
We isolate the Omicron suspects in the institutional quarantine and focus on vaccination.
We will also start the cellular awareness drive about the need to get vaccination, ” said BMC Executive Health Officer Dr.
Mangala Gomare..
State government officials Said that death in cities and countries has been low during the past month because the treatment protocol has been established and most new cases detected have mild symptoms that do not even require hospitalization , We have urged the district to ensure the implementation of behavior in accordance with Covid, “said an official.