The number of active Covid-19 cases in Mumbai has soared by more than 20% in the last fortnight, from 18,299 cases on August 21 to 22,222 on Friday. Active cases are calculated by deducting the number of discharged patients and the number of deaths from the total number of Covid-19 cases in the city.
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Medical experts and officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) public health department have attributed this increase to the increase in daily cases of Covid-19 over the past week. Experts have indicated that this could spell trouble for the city as it is a sign that the Covid chart, which had started to stabilize, is showing an upward curve again, due to the Mumbai unblocking plans and the recent Ganesh festival. Chaturthi.
The number of active cases accumulated through Friday is also the highest number of active cases recorded in more than a month. The last time Mumbai had this high number of active Covid-19 cases was on July 26, with a total of 22,768. After that, the cumulative number of active cases showed a steady decline, through Friday.
Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner in charge of the civic health department, said: “The increase in the number of active cases of Covid-19 is the result of our recent unblocking plans, the festival and also due to the change in the spread of Covid-19 from slums to skyscrapers. As the wealthiest people are turning positive, the self-admission rate in private hospitals has increased and these residents are choosing to extend their treatment in a private hospital.
In the last week, the daily number of Covid-19 cases has also increased. Especially in the last four days of September, the daily cases of Covid-19 have increased dramatically, unlike the daily number of cases in August.
While on Friday the city registered 1,929 new cases of Covid-19, on Thursday it registered 1,526 cases and on Wednesday 1,622 cases. On Tuesday, September 1, it registered 1,142 new cases of Covid-19.
By contrast, Mumbai had recorded just 705 Covid-19 cases on August 3, and the month saw a significant number of days in which daily Covid-19 cases were less than 1,000.
Dr Shashank Joshi, a member of the Maharashtra government task force formed in April to reduce mortality in the state, said: “This is not a good sign for Mumbai, especially as it has opened up considerably. If this trend continues, Covid-19 cases could rise again at an alarming rate, and Mumbai may have to tighten its lockdown, once again. ”
Joshi also said that one of the main reasons for the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases is the lack of hygiene related to Covid, which arises from ‘Covid fatigue’ among citizens. Yet another reason is a lack of faith in the civic body, as many people do not want to move to institutional quarantine facilities, so they should not be tested until the fourth or fifth day after symptoms have developed. “In such cases, in the meantime, they interact with a lot more people and the infection spreads rapidly,” Joshi added.
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