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MUMBAI: There was further proof on Tuesday of the second Covid wave ‘plateauing’ in Mumbai, with fewer than 3,000 cases registered for the second consecutive day. Cases in the state reported a slight increase from Monday but were still under 52,000. However, fatalities in the state rose to 891 a 57% jump from 567 on Monday. The state’s daily case fatality rate touched 1.7%, higher than the last few days. With this, the state’s caseload touched 48.2 lakh and the total toll rose to 71,742.
Even as cases in 12 districts were reporting a decline, daily detections were on the rise across the other 24. To control spread of infection, a few districts have announced a local lockdown. The Kolhapur administration has decided to impose a strict lockdown from Wednesday for 10 days during which only milk and medicine supply will continue every day.
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MUMBAI: Even as Mumbai s positivity rate has started to slide, high number of deaths in April has become a cause for concern. In absolute numbers, fatalities have increased nearly 200% from 166 in the first week of April to 490 in the last week. Compared to March (215), there is a near seven-fold rise in April (1479).
BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal told TOI, “We are looking deep into that with state task force experts.” The rise was also seen in case fatality rate (CFR), which means deaths in confirmed cases. From 0.24% in the first week of April, it rose to 0.46% in the second, 0.63% in the third and 1.27% by the fourth week.
Mumbai: April deaths raise an alarm, trend may persist for a while
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Even as Mumbai s positivity rate has started to slide, high number of deaths in April has become a cause for concern. In absolute numbers, fatalities have increased nearly 200% from 166 in the first week of April to 490 in the last week. Compared to March (215), there is a near seven-fold rise in April (1479).
(This story originally appeared in on May 01, 2021)MUMBAI: Even as Mumbai s positivity rate has started to slide, high number of deaths in April has become a cause for concern. In absolute numbers, fatalities have increased nearly 200% from 166 in the first week of April to 490 in the last week. Compared to March (215), there is a near seven-fold rise in April (1479).
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Mumbai:
The situation at the ground level in Mumbai, battling the massive surge in coronavirus cases, is grim, a top doctor at one of the city s largest hospitals, said. The city reported 10,030 cases and 31 deaths in the last 24 hours. This is the highest one-rise in deaths in Mumbai since October.
Hospitals in Mumbai have seen a 300 per cent jump in admissions over the last few months even as the bed allotment process has been streamlined by the civic body to avoid chaos and crowding at hospitals. The situation at the ground level is very grim. The number of cases has been increasing for the last, almost four weeks, Dr Hemant Deshmukh, dean of KEM Hospital, told NDTV.