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MUMBAI: With 1,765 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Mumbai on Wednesday, the city saw its highest single-day Covid tally since January 26, 2022, or in more than 130 days, as the latest outbreak wave in the country’s financial capital continued to expand at an alarming rate.

Wednesday’s tally was also the second day running that the city saw more than 1,000 daily infections. There were 1,242 new cases reported in Mumbai on Tuesday, according to data furnished by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). On Monday, there were 676 new cases.

To be sure, the situation in terms of other crucial on-theground Covid statistics such as hospitalisation and deaths appears to be well under control. As things stand on Wednesday, only 1.19% of the 24,598 hospital beds earmarked for Covid patients in the city are occupied, BMC data shows. Furthermore, in the last 24 days, only one death has been reported.

After Wednesday’s additions, the seven-day average of daily infections in the city — a statistic that represents a “case curve” of a region — has now climbed to 1,000 infections a day for the past week, against a low of 26 average cases a day for the week ended March 26, according to data furnished by BMC.

Just two weeks, this number was at an average of 219 cases a day, which means that the case rate in the city has now increased more than 350% in the past fortnight.

A total of 19,185 tests were carried out in past 24 hours and the test positivity rate stood at 9.19 % on Wednesday — up from 7.24 % on Tuesday, but below the levels of 10.9% and 9.8% seen on Sunday and Monday respectively.