AVERAGE DAILY CASES DECLINE

Mumbai reported less than 500 cases on Friday, with the city reporting 483 new infections and nine COVID-19 deaths being recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the total cases to 3,05,132 and 11,285 fatalities till now.

Experts said they were worried over citizens not following COVID-19 appropriate behaviour as the impact of vaccination, which started on Saturday, will start showing only after months.

A comparative analysis of figures also showed a decline in the average number of daily cases in Maharashtra. In November, the average was 4,775, which fell to 3,892 in December and in January, as of Thursday, it dropped further to 3,174.

Dr Subhash Salunkhe, who chairs the Maharashtra communicable diseases prevention and control technical committee, said, “Although we are getting fewer daily cases, the number of