Mumbai: The latest surge includes a fatality in Mumbai after 17 days of zero deaths. The sole death recorded in Mumbai and the state was of a woman below age 40.
Health secretary Dr Pradeep Vyas said active cases in the state has gone up seven times in the last 1.5 months. There were 626 active cases on 16 April and the figure touched 4,500 on Thursday. An analysis shows that 97% of new cases are being reported from Mumbai and surrounding urban centres like Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune. The largest share is from Mumbai where the positivity rate is 6%, double the state's average.
Active cases in the state (4,559), as well as the city (3,324), have jumped by 13% overnight, prompting experts surveilto call for heightened lance and increased genome sequencing to track variants.
This story is from the June 03, 2022 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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