Major relief as city’s pandemic cases drop by 26% this month

There’s some good news for the Mumbaikars as the number of corona cases across the city has dropped by 26 per cent this month so far as compared to December.

According to the data provided by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, as many as 14,898 COVID-19 cases were reported between January 1 and January 28 as compared to 20,124 during the same period in December. Civic officials attributed this drop to the several initiatives or strategies taken by them to handle the cases in the city. Moreover, the citizens have adhered to COVID-19 norms due to which cases have dropped.

For the entire month of January, Mumbai has recorded around 500-600 new cases per day. Moreover, 12 days in January, the city has recorded less than 500 cases, of which some days the city has also seen around 350 cases a day.

Suresh Kakani, Additional Municipal Commissioner, said the citizens should continue to adhere to the COVID19 norms even though they have yielded good results with their strategy for controlling cases in the city.

“It is a team effort due to which we were able to curb the COVID-19 cases across Mumbai. Moreover, the doubling rate of the cases in the city is now more than 500, however, the weekly growth rate has also dropped to 0.13 per cent from 0.21 per cent which was constant for the last five months,” he said.