MUMBAI: India’s daily Covid tally dropped to 5,784 cases, with Maharashtra accounting for 12% of the cases (684) on Tuesday.
In Mumbai, cases dropped by 98% from approximately 10,000 on April 14 — the height of the second wave — to 217 on Tuesday.
The daily toll in Maharashtra climbed from five on Monday to 24 on Tuesday, while Mumbai registered only one death.
BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani said that the weekly tally of cases in Mumbai had gone up marginally as compared to the previous week. “However, this could be due to more tests being conducted daily due to the Omicron threat,’’ he said. The city has increased its number of tests on most weekdays from 35,000 to over 40,000. “The daily test positive rate is the important ratio to consider and we are still around 0.5%, hence there is no cause for concern,’’ he added.
State officials said testing has increased in most districts. The state which was conducting an average of 75000 tests per day a few days ago is now conducting nearly a lakh tests everyday. “ This is done to ensure that no cases are left undetected," said an official.
