MUMBAI: While the state recorded its highest toll of 36 on Saturday, Mumbai too saw the most number of deaths (27) recorded for a 24-hour period. “While 20 of the victims in the city were men,seven were women,” said a BMC update. An age-wise analysis showed that 12 of the 27 dead were above 60 years old while the rest were between 40 and 60 years old.
Of Mumbai’s Saturday case tally of 547, the BMC update said that 357 patients were tested in public labs. The remaining 190 were tested in private labs between April 29 and 30 and added to the tally as BMC received reports on Saturday.
Despite the high number of deaths recorded on Saturday for the state as well as the city, state officials refused to take a negative stance. “While the doubling rate of corononavirus cases from April 17 to 23 was 7 days, the good news and reason to cheer is that for the April 23-29 period, the doubling rate has improved to 10 days,” said principal secretary Manisha Mhaiskar, who is on deputation from Mantralaya to BMC during the Covid-19 outbreak. “There were 4,232 cases on April 23 and 6,457 cases on April 29,” she added.
Dharavi in G-North ward reported 89 cases on Saturday, highest in a day since the first case was reported in the area on April 1. A corporator from one of the city’s four worst hotspots tested positive but is stable and under quarantine.
A huge Covid-only facility is likely to come up in BKC grounds by May 15 and beds in Nair Hospital will triple from the present 300 in the next few days. Even as KEM and Sion Hospitals will add more Covid-19 beds, BMC has asked all private hospitals to allot 20% of their ICU and non-ICU Covid-19 beds to its disaster management cell for distribution as free beds among its patients. The state insurance scheme will pay for these beds.
The reason for capacity building, said Mhasikar, is that while earlier projections had shown only 10% of patients would need hospital beds, the number of those seeking beds has increased as many of the infected are either elderly or those with comorbidities.
Meanwhile, state officials said over 2,000 patients had recovered and got discharged from hospitals. Currently, 1.74 lakh are in home quarantine and 12,623 are in institutional quarantine.
Navi Mumbai reported 39 cases even as one Juinagarbased patient died on Saturday. This takes the toll in NMMC to 6, while positive cases are 289. Thane city reported one death and 28 people were tested positive on Saturday, taking the toll here to 15.
Nanded reported 29 cases, with 20 volunteers at a gurudwara testing positive. A 50-year-old man from Krishna Nagar locality became the first Covid-19 positive patient from Chandrapur, which had been wrongly shown in the orange zone on the government website with 3 cases on Friday. After receiving the man’s test reports late on Saturday evening, the civic administration began a containment drive.
Of Mumbai’s Saturday case tally of 547, the BMC update said that 357 patients were tested in public labs. The remaining 190 were tested in private labs between April 29 and 30 and added to the tally as BMC received reports on Saturday.
Despite the high number of deaths recorded on Saturday for the state as well as the city, state officials refused to take a negative stance. “While the doubling rate of corononavirus cases from April 17 to 23 was 7 days, the good news and reason to cheer is that for the April 23-29 period, the doubling rate has improved to 10 days,” said principal secretary Manisha Mhaiskar, who is on deputation from Mantralaya to BMC during the Covid-19 outbreak. “There were 4,232 cases on April 23 and 6,457 cases on April 29,” she added.
Dharavi in G-North ward reported 89 cases on Saturday, highest in a day since the first case was reported in the area on April 1. A corporator from one of the city’s four worst hotspots tested positive but is stable and under quarantine.
A huge Covid-only facility is likely to come up in BKC grounds by May 15 and beds in Nair Hospital will triple from the present 300 in the next few days. Even as KEM and Sion Hospitals will add more Covid-19 beds, BMC has asked all private hospitals to allot 20% of their ICU and non-ICU Covid-19 beds to its disaster management cell for distribution as free beds among its patients. The state insurance scheme will pay for these beds.
The reason for capacity building, said Mhasikar, is that while earlier projections had shown only 10% of patients would need hospital beds, the number of those seeking beds has increased as many of the infected are either elderly or those with comorbidities.
Meanwhile, state officials said over 2,000 patients had recovered and got discharged from hospitals. Currently, 1.74 lakh are in home quarantine and 12,623 are in institutional quarantine.
Navi Mumbai reported 39 cases even as one Juinagarbased patient died on Saturday. This takes the toll in NMMC to 6, while positive cases are 289. Thane city reported one death and 28 people were tested positive on Saturday, taking the toll here to 15.
Nanded reported 29 cases, with 20 volunteers at a gurudwara testing positive. A 50-year-old man from Krishna Nagar locality became the first Covid-19 positive patient from Chandrapur, which had been wrongly shown in the orange zone on the government website with 3 cases on Friday. After receiving the man’s test reports late on Saturday evening, the civic administration began a containment drive.
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