Mumbai’s Covid see-saw continues

As Mumbai continued to record slow yet steady surge in the weekly Covid-19 cases in the fourth week of April, the health officials have once again stressed upon the mantra of ramping up testing, tracing and vaccination for maintaining the hardly achieved grip on the pandemic.

According to the official data, Mumbai recorded 549 cases between April 20 and April 26. While the same figure stood at 390 cases between April 13 and April 19, which means a surge of 40.77 per cent in a week.

Similarly, Maharashtra has also witnessed a surge of 44.63 per cent in cases during the same period. Meanwhile, active cases have also risen to 42 per cent in the city in the last 15 days, but only 27 patients are admitted to the hospitals and only three patients are on ventilators.

Speaking on the increasing Covid statistics, BMC additional commissioner,

Suresh Kakani, underscored that the present surge is not so worrisome as the city is witnessing increase and decrease in cases every alternate day. Most important thing is there is no hospitalisation of patients and over 98 per cent are asymptomatic, he added.

Mentioning that the civic body is keeping a close watch on the travellers coming from the cities or state having more cases, he further said, “In the last week, the test positivity rate was above one per cent but it has again come down, which is a good sign. Moreover, the weekly growth rate is also not more than 0.07 per cent, but we need to be on toes so that we don't see any further rise.” State health departments have come up with the action points drafted by the state government which have been circulated to all the districts.