For 7 days in Jan, NMMC sees no Covid-19 deaths

With the decline in positive cases of COVID 19, the number of deaths is slowing down. There were seven days in January month when there was no death reported under the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) jurisdiction due to COVID 19 infection.

Even the number of active patients in the city has also come down to around seven months' low and the doubling rate reaches 2 years.

While the vaccination drive has already started and now frontline workers are being vaccinated, there is a continuous declining trend of active cases and deaths.

As per the NMMC’s Health Department, on January 12, there was no death after around eight and a half months. “There was no death reported on January 12, 17,18, 23, 25, 27, and 30,” said a senior official from the Health Department.

As per the data shared by the Health Department of NMMC, the doubling rate of COVID 19 cases in the city as of November 730 days which was 624 days on December 30. “The doubling rate is around two years,” said the official.

The number of active has also dropped to around eight months low with just 802 or 1.51%. “The number of tests per day has been increased after news of COVID variants mutant in Britain,” said the official.