MUMBAI: On a day Maharashtra reported its highest single-day addition in Covid-19 cases, the total number of patients discharged in the state breached the one lakh mark. Maharashtra added 6,330 cases on Thursday, taking its total cases to 1,86,626, and Mumbai’s case tally crossed 80,000 to reach 80,262. A total of 8,018 people were discharged in the state, taking the number of people treated and sent home to 1,01,172.
With this, the state’s recovery rate is 54.21%. Active cases are 77,260. Maharashtra on Thursday reported 125 deaths, of which 110 occurred in the last 48 hours and 15 were from a previous period, the state update said. The state’s toll was 8,176. Maharashtra has also completed carrying out 10 lakh tests, with a positivity rate of 18.20%.
While 1,554 patients in Mumbai tested positive on Thursday, three times the number left various healthcare facilities after recovery. The BMC update showed the city’s recovery rate had increased to 63% -- up from 55% on June 25 – with 5,903 patients going home. The total number of recovered patients in the city too rose to 50,694. “Due to change in discharge policy, a number of patients came up for discharge simultaneously,” said a BMC official. On Wednesday, 621 patients were discharged.
While BMC update registered only 6 deaths on Wednesday, the toll rose to 57 a day later. The state has added one death from a previous period to the city’s toll and 58 deaths were reported in Mumbai, the lowest in 23 days. The total deaths in the city as per the state update were 4,689. The growth rate of cases continued at 1.72% in this period.
“Doubling rate of cases in the city is 41 days,” said an official. The rush of cases at BMC’s KEM Hospital has ebbed a bit, said dean Dr Hemant Deshmukh. “We were used to 80 to 100 admissions a day, but we have been steady at 40 admissions a day for some time now,” he said. The hospital only gets seriously ill patients while mild and moderate cases are sent to dedicated Covid centres such as Kasturba Hospital. But BMC will continue to add beds as cities across the world registered a rise in cases after lockdowns were relaxed. “As part of our ‘Mission Save The Lives’, we are upscaling our jumbo health facilities by July 7,” said AMC Suresh Kakani. He said beds in Nesco facility in Goregaon would increase from 1,000 to 2,000 on July
7. “We will inaugurate ICU facilities in Nesco and MMRDA grounds,” he added. Health minister Rajesh Tope said there was no community transmission yet as most cases reported were from containment zones, quarantine facilities or patients’ contacts.
With this, the state’s recovery rate is 54.21%. Active cases are 77,260. Maharashtra on Thursday reported 125 deaths, of which 110 occurred in the last 48 hours and 15 were from a previous period, the state update said. The state’s toll was 8,176. Maharashtra has also completed carrying out 10 lakh tests, with a positivity rate of 18.20%.
While 1,554 patients in Mumbai tested positive on Thursday, three times the number left various healthcare facilities after recovery. The BMC update showed the city’s recovery rate had increased to 63% -- up from 55% on June 25 – with 5,903 patients going home. The total number of recovered patients in the city too rose to 50,694. “Due to change in discharge policy, a number of patients came up for discharge simultaneously,” said a BMC official. On Wednesday, 621 patients were discharged.
While BMC update registered only 6 deaths on Wednesday, the toll rose to 57 a day later. The state has added one death from a previous period to the city’s toll and 58 deaths were reported in Mumbai, the lowest in 23 days. The total deaths in the city as per the state update were 4,689. The growth rate of cases continued at 1.72% in this period.
“Doubling rate of cases in the city is 41 days,” said an official. The rush of cases at BMC’s KEM Hospital has ebbed a bit, said dean Dr Hemant Deshmukh. “We were used to 80 to 100 admissions a day, but we have been steady at 40 admissions a day for some time now,” he said. The hospital only gets seriously ill patients while mild and moderate cases are sent to dedicated Covid centres such as Kasturba Hospital. But BMC will continue to add beds as cities across the world registered a rise in cases after lockdowns were relaxed. “As part of our ‘Mission Save The Lives’, we are upscaling our jumbo health facilities by July 7,” said AMC Suresh Kakani. He said beds in Nesco facility in Goregaon would increase from 1,000 to 2,000 on July
7. “We will inaugurate ICU facilities in Nesco and MMRDA grounds,” he added. Health minister Rajesh Tope said there was no community transmission yet as most cases reported were from containment zones, quarantine facilities or patients’ contacts.
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