COVID 19 appears to have lost its grip over Mumbai and Maharashtra. In Mumbai, which has been witnessing a steady decline in cases over last two weeks, the daily cases saw a drop from 536 cases on Sunday to 356 new cases on Monday.
949 patients were discharged from Mumbai hospitals. The total active cases in Mumbai
also declined from 5,743 on Sunday to 5,139 cases on Monday.
On Monday, the doubling rate in Mumbai was 760 days, which has increased by 30 days as compared to Sunday. On Sunday, patients doubling rate was 730.
Compared to three deaths on Sunday, five deaths were reported on Monday. The recovery rate of Mumbai has increased by one percent and reached 98 percent on Monday.
The data released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation showed that 40 new patients were admitted to hospitals on Monday, taking the progressive hospitalisation number to 1,407. Out of these 40, only 10 were put on oxygen beds, taking the number of patients on oxygen beds to 618. Out of 37,116 available beds in Mumbai, only 3.8 per cent or 1,407 are presently occupied.
The data also showed that there were zero containment zones presently, and only one building remains in sealed after positive cases were found. 29,863 tests were carried by the corporation on Monday.
Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani said, "Covid cases rate is declining rapidly, but we have to be cautious,"
Dr.Mangala Gomare, the executive health officer of BMC said, "Down trend of Covid cases has already started. But Covid cases are falling with the pace they had increased during third wave. We need to observe numbers till Wednesday; it may slightly rise but one thing is sure that there is down trend in cases. The vaccination helped to reduced infection and cases have gone down after reaching the peak."
Maharashtra also witnessed a sharp drop in daily cases from 9,666 cases on Sunday to 6,436 new Covid 19 cases. On Sunday, 66 people had died due to COVID-19 which dropped to 24 deaths on Monday. 18,423 patients have been discharged on Monday compared to 25,175 patients discharged in the state on Sunday.
Case fatality rate on state is measured 1.83 percent and recovery rate of state is 96.76 percent.
In other Maharashtra cities too, the active cases saw a decline.The active cases in Pune dropped from 32881 on Sunday to 28078, while the active cases in the neighbouring Thane also dropped from 8,432 on Sunday to 7901 on Monday. Nagpur accounted for 14604 active cases, followed by Ahmednagar (7687), Nashik (4801), , Aurangabad (3768) and Satara (2864). Currently, 6,73,875 people are in home quarantine while 2383 people are in institutional quarantine in the state.
