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As pace of infection slows in Mumbai, experts advise caution
May 17, 2021
Suggest extending of lockdown in June as precaution against further spread of infection
Mumbai could become the first city in the country to come out of lockdown after successfully managing to reduce the seven-day Moving Growth Rate (MGR) of positive cases, active cases and mortality. Furthermore, the positive cases rate has fallen below 2 per cent, which enables it to further relax the restrictions imposed on daily life.
The Maharashtra Government began implementing harsh restrictions for containing the second wave of Covid pandemic from April 4. Other than medicines and grocery outlets, all shops and most private establishments are shut in the city. On April 4, Mumbai had 66,806 active cases, which has dropped to 33,574 on Sunday.
Express News Service
BENGALURU: With the number of Covid cases increasing in the state, and Bengaluru being the biggest contributor among districts, the city’s positivity rate has increased to 12 per cent in April.
The positivity rate is the number of positive patients per 100 tests. It was in September last year that the city had touched the positivity rate of 12.21 per cent, but then, it was on a steady decline.
As on Tuesday, the positivity rate in Bengaluru was 12 per cent with 20,82,897 tests conducted. Only last month, this figure was 2.31 per cent against 13,78,753 tests.
In February, it was at 0.94 per cent with the number of tests too being low at 7,27,314. In January, it was 0.91 per cent with 11,29,909 tests, December 1.42 per cent with 13,8,060 tests, November 2.19 per cent with 14,64,614 tests, 7.85 per cent in October with 14,64,614 tests and September at 12.21 per cent with 8,53,743 tests. The highest-ever positivity rate since the pandemic broke out was at 23.8