THANE: The number of
Covid-19 cases in Thane crossed the 50,000-mark on Monday, after 153 new cases took the tally to 50,070. The virus toll in the lake city touched 1,156 with three deaths on Monday. The recovery rate in Thane was 94.7% with 47,410 patients cured and discharged so far, and 1,504 active cases left.
Officials claimed the pace of infection has slowed down and cited records showing how the recent addition of 5,000 cases has taken over a month, while previously the same volume was mostly covered in 13-22 days. The slowest addition of 5,000 cases was in the first three months of lockdown—March to June.
Thane clocked the first 5,000 cases on June 14, nearly three months after the first case was reported here, while the jump to 10,000 cases was in 21 days. The rise to 15,000 cases was the quickest as it took barely 13 days—between July 4 and 17. The addition of 5,000 cases to reach 20,000- and 25,000-mark took 19 and 22 days, respectively. Thereafter, it took 18 days to touch the 30,000-mark, and 13 days each to cross 35,000 and 45,000 cases, showed data. Officials said they have been following the aggressive tracking, tracing, testing, isolating and treating protocol which has helped reduce the caseload here.