The officials of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) attribute the ‘success’ to the strict lockdown.
In what could a be slight relief in the overall havoc that’s been wrecked by the second wave of Coronavirus, Mumbai recorded 3793 COVID-19 cases and 70 deaths in the last 24 hours, it’s lowest since March. Although the testing for today was less than 30000 due to the weekend, a downward trend in cases has been noticed in the last couple of days. Maharashtra, meanwhile, recorded 48700 cases in the last 24 hours
On April 24, Mumbai recorded 5,888 new Covid-19 cases, its lowest number in April. Prior to that, the city had been recording an average of 8,000 cases daily since the beginning of March. The officials of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) attribute the ‘success’ to the strict lockdown.
With the average testing range around 40000-50000 tests/day, Mumbai conducted close to 50lakh tests so far. It had recorded 6,31,527 total cases, as of April 26 with 12,853 deaths so far. There have been 70,373 active patients and 12,853 deaths to date.
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Today was the fifth consecutive day where the recoveries have been more than the number of positive cases detected. The doubling rate of Mumbai stands at 62 days currently.
The BMC said that the strict curbs on inter-city, inter-district, and other travel movements is a decision that helped them contain the curb more efficiently. Along with that, to tackle the bed availability issue, the BMC passed an order under which all symptomatic COVID-19 patients have to undergo a medical checkup at home by BMC doctors who will decide whether hospitalization was really needed or not.
However, officials and medical experts have cautioned the citizens that it’s too early to determine whether the city may have turned the corner, and urged people to not let their guard down and continue to follow COVID-19 appropriate protocols.
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