Mumbai sees surge in recoveries; 2141 discharged in 24 hours and 1365 new COVID cases

Witnessing a sudden surge in recoveries, Mumbai on Thursday reported 1365 new COVID-19 cases and 2141 recoveries. city also saw 58 deaths taking its fatality toll upto 4080. Mumbai , which has w been overtaken by Delhi as worst-hit city has seen 70,990 cases – of which 27,779 are active cases and 39,151 have recovered.

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Mumbai: 2141 new recoveries

'1000 COVID-19 deaths in Mumbai t added to state's fatality toll': Fadnavis to Maha CM

‘1000 deaths t reported’

Earlier in day, former CM Devendra Fadnavis wrote to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray alleging that 1000 COVID-19 deaths in Mumbai had still t been reported in state's overall fatality toll. He mentioned that state government had earlier shown 1328 additional deaths as part of a data reconciliation exercise after his letter dated June 15. According to him, data pertaining to COVID-19 patients who had died outside hospitals had t come on record yet. Amid criticism about handling of COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Telangana, a Central team led by Lav Aggarwal- Joint Secretary in Ministry of Health will visit se states from June 26-29.

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BMC’s Mission Universal testing

Boosted by its Dharavi success, BMC has anunced that it will procure 1 lakh antigen testing kits. Moreover, BMC has also urged private hospitals and offices to procure antigen test kits to test employees as city reopens. civic body has also allowed home tests with e-prescriptions and has changed its discharge policy aiming to free up its beds. As per new discharge policy, instead of discharge mild/asymptomatic patients displaying fever without tests, BMC will test se cases on fourth day and discharge if y test negative.

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Mumbai's COVID crisis

BMC has increased its containment zones to 756, while over 6005 buildings and chawls have been sealed and 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 Borivali as most affected place with doubling rate at 20 days, while Dharavi is least affected ward with doubling rate at 97 days. Overall, Mumbai's doubling rate at 41 days is higher than national aver of 17.4 days.