The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or BMC, in its evening bulletin, today informed that Mumbai’s COVID-19 positivity rate or the number of cases per 100 tests has risen to 8.40 per cent from 6 per cent yesterday.
The city had reported 803 cases on February 1. Today, it reported 739 new COVID-19 cases, the highest since Feb 1.
Officials have been told by health authorities of the state capital to immediately increase testing “on a war footing”.
“Daily new cases have tremendously increased in Mumbai, with monsoon around the corner, we will now see a rapid rise in symptomatic cases,” the BMC said.
The vaccination drive for 12-18 years category and booster doses should be pushed aggressively, the civic body said.
The BMC, concerned over another sharp rise in symptomatic cases, asked for jumbo field hospitals to be kept adequately staffed and on alert now.
Private hospitals have been asked to be on alert too. The BMC, if hospitalisation increases in the coming days, the jumbo hospital in Malad is to be used on priority.
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