MUMBAI: Maharashtra has reported a 25-day low in daily detections, while cases in Mumbai dropped by 18% over the past 24 hours.
The state reported 22,444 cases, lowest since January 4 (18,466) and a fall of nearly 20% since Saturday. For the second day in a row the state reported a decline in Covid-19 fatalities too. The state added 50 deaths on Sunday as against 61 on Saturday and 103 on Friday.
The city reported 1,160 fresh infections on Sunday, taking the count of overall cases to 1,045,630. BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said that the daily positivity rate has dropped to 2.5%, much lower than 30% recorded during the peak of the third wave.
The city reported 10 Covid-19 deaths on Sunday, taking the toll to 16,612. Eight of the 10 patients had comorbidities, the BMC said in a press release.
Daily hospitalisations continued to see a steady decline. A total of 160 patients were admitted across the city’s Covid hospitals on Sunday. In the past week, an average of 212 people got hospitalised every day, a 50% drop from the week before that, when 483 people got admitted daily.
In the first and second weeks of January, an average of 1,100 and 800 people were getting hospitalised daily. The highest hospitalisations were seen on January 7, when 1,395 people took admissions on a single day.
BMC officials said on Sunday that barely 6% of beds are occupied at present. Across the state, some districts are witnessing high detections both in their urban parts as well as the peri-urban and rural areas.
Districts like Amravati are witnessing a uniform surge across all areas. Civic surgeon Dr Shyamsundar Nikam said that they are detecting cases from everywhere, but the third wave surge has started to see a decline.
“We had touched 3,500 active, which has now come down to 2,723. Our positivity rate that had touched 35% about three-four days ago is now down to 25%,” he said.
