Daily Covid-19 toll over 20 in Mumbai for 4th day but under 200 in Maharashtra

MUMBAI: Even though the state continued to report fewer than 200 Covid-19 fatalities for the last two days, the daily Covid-19 deaths in Mumbai continued to be high at over 20 for the fourth consecutive day, with 21 deaths reported on Saturday.
The state reported 9,489 daily cases, a slight increase since Friday, and 153 deaths were reported, taking the total cases across Maharashtra since the start of the pandemic to 60.88 lakh and the deaths to 1,22,724.

The city recorded 575 cases from 35,491 tests. The total cases in the city now stand at 7.24 lakh, and the fatalities have touched 15,520.
BMC executive health officer Dr Mangala Gomare said the BMC has decided that a minimum of 30,000 tests should be done daily in the city. To maintain the present less-than-3% positivity, the BMC has decided that for each positive case, 32 samples must be tested for Covid-19. Daily testing for each ward shall be at least 32 times more than the number of daily reported cases in the ward.
As cases began rising on June 23, the BMC decided to daily look for 10 high-risk wards and carry out contact tracing within 72 hours.
At the state level, the Kolhapur circle reported the highest number of coronavirus cases--3,423—as against 1,822 cases reported by the Mumbai circle, and 3,092 cases were reported in the Pune circle on Saturday.
Officials said that there are four districts -- Kolhapur, Raigad, Satara and Sangli — that are still reporting a surge in cases, and there are some areas where the containment measures have to be tightened. On Saturday, the daily detections were higher than the number of daily recoveries (8,395), causing a slight increase in the active cases in the state and the city.
There are 1.17 lakh active cases in the state at the moment, of which 12,826 are in the city.