Mumbai: Active cases drop in city

Mumbai: Active cases drop in city

State surveillance officer, Dr Pradeep Awate, said that the situation was stabilising by the day. “We are now seeing the numbers settling at 40,000 cases and it does not look like there will be any surge as such in the coming days,” said Dr Awate.

Swapnil MishraUpdated: Monday, January 24, 2022, 10:59 PM IST
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Amid the drop in the covid-19 cases, the city has witnessed an 83.55 per cent drop in the active cases in the last 15 days. Meanwhile, Maharashtra has also witnessed a 45 per cent surge in the active cases during the same period. According to the statistics, Mumbai had 1.17 lakh active cases until January 9 which dropped to 19,308 until January 23, while Maharashtra witnessed a jump in active cases from 2.02 lakh to 2.93 lakh until January 23. Health officials said there are several factors due to which active cases in Mumbai have come down, but there has been a surge in covid cases in other districts of Maharashtra due to which active cases have increased.

State surveillance officer, Dr Pradeep Awate, said that the situation was stabilising by the day. “We are now seeing the numbers settling at 40,000 cases and it does not look like there will be any surge as such in the coming days,” said Dr Awate.


“Districts like Mumbai and Palghar, which initially reported a surge, are now recording a decline in the number of cases. In other districts of the state, the numbers may still be high, but that is because the surge started late and still they will stabilise over the coming days,” Dr Awate added.

Dr Mala Kaneria, Consultant Infectious Diseases, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre said the third wave in India which was largely driven by the new entrant Omicron is already showing signs of ebbing in Mumbai. It reached its peak very swiftly, within three weeks (much faster than the wave of Delta).

“This same pattern was observed in South Africa, the first country to report the Omicron variant. There may be a substantial warning by this month end itself. However, states may differ in their time to peak and ebb and consequently, in India may end by March 2022,” she said.

Senior health official from the state health department attributed the surge of active cases in Maharashtra due to the shift of virus in the districts where the cases are increasing daily. Moreover, there is definitely a surge in covid cases into the rural areas due to which the burden of active cases has also increased. “But there will be drop in both covid and active cases by middle of February and major urban regions such as Pune, Mumbai, Thane, Nagpur and Nashik are likely to start showing a reasonably balanced situation, which is a point when positivity rates, as well as daily cases, reduce,” he said.

Officials said increasing vaccine coverage was encouraging. The BMC is taking various steps to do so, including telephoning citizens who may have missed their second dose, holding vaccine-on-wheels camps in areas with high footfall and encouraging housing societies to keep it informed in case someone had missed their dose.

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