Mumbai sees 1059 new COVID cases; growth rate slows to 0.91% with doubling rate at 77 days

Pushing down its growth rate of Coronavirus cases (COVID-19), Mumbai on Saturday, reported 1059 new COVID-19 cases and 45 new deaths. city also saw 832 new recoveries taking its cured tally to 87,906. Mumbai which has lower active cases than Thane, w has 1,15,346 cases with 6395 fatalities and 20,749 are active.

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Mumbai: 1059 new COVID cases

Mumbai is seeing a stey rise in recovery rate - standing at 77% w while its growth rise slowed to 0.91%. BMC reported that 5,37,536 samples have been tested till date with a 21.26% positivity rate. As per BMC's war room report, 105 of 1069 ventilator beds were vacant, while 185 of 1755 ICU beds were vacant.

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JJ Hospital's contactless transport chamber

Earlier in day, JJ Hospital rolled out a transport chamber for contactless movement of COVID-19 patients within premises. Developed by general surgery department of hospital with help of engineers of a firm named Indomed Devices, glass patient transport trolley transport named 'kavach' aims to reduce risk of infection among hospital staff, visitors and or patients. trolley can also be used for incubating patients for tests - such as sography and is w being redesigned to install chamber in ambulances.

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Maharashtra reopens malls

After Centre extended lockdown, Maharashtra followed same easing more restrictions. Under new guidelines, apart from current relaxations, malls and market complexes have been allowed to reopen from August 5 without atres, food courts, and restaurants from 9 AM to 7 PM. guidelines have t mentioned anything on reopening religious places which remain shut across Maharashtra.

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Mumbai's COVID crisis

With Maharashtra extending its lockdown, BMC has increased its containment zones to 764, while over 5409 buildings and chawls have been sealed and are being self-mand by society. While slums were initially where most cases were found, BMC claims that most cases were w found in housing societies. Recent BMC report shows ward D - (Malabar Hill, Tardeo, Pedder Ro and Nepean Sea ro) as most affected place with doubling rate at 38 days, while Dharavi is least affected ward with a doubling rate at 161 days. Overall, Mumbai's doubling rate at 77 days is higher than national aver of 21.8 days.