Mumbai: On Thursday, 20,181 new cases of coronavirus (Mumbai Coronavirus Update) have been reported in Mumbai. Which is the highest number of cases found so far. There have been 4 deaths in Mumbai in the last 24 hours while the number of active cases has reached 79,260. On Wednesday, 15,166 new cases of infection with Covid-19 were reported in Mumbai, which was the highest since the beginning of the epidemic in March 2020. Earlier, on April 4, 2021, Mumbai had the highest number of 11,163 cases of corona in a single day. At the same time, 36, 265 cases of coronavirus have been registered in Maharashtra. There have been 13 deaths in the state. Today 79 cases of Omicron have been reported in the state.
The positivity rate in Mumbai has reached 30 percent. Along with this, there is also a spurt in the cases of hospitalization. The number of patients without symptoms has come down from 87 percent to 85 percent. With this, the number of patients admitted in the hospitals of the financial capital of the country has also reached 16.8 percent.
After the arrival of more than 20 thousand new cases in Mumbai, the question of imposing lockdown again in the city is arising. Let us inform you that Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar had said on Tuesday that if the daily cases of Covid-19 here cross the 20,000 mark, then a lockdown will be imposed in the city as per the rules of the Central Government.
Corona infection in 139 more patients on cruise ship returned from Goa
At the same time, out of 1,827 passengers on board the Cordelia cruise ship that returned from Goa to Mumbai, 139 more passengers were found infected with the coronavirus on Wednesday. These are in addition to the 66 infected passengers in whom the infection has been confirmed in the past. Out of 66, 60 passengers returned to Mumbai while six landed in Goa.
A BMC official said that the passengers whose test report has come positive but do not have any symptoms will be kept in home isolation, while the passengers with symptoms will be kept in institutional isolation. Earlier, BMC’s Executive Health Officer Dr. Mangala Gomare had told PTI that 143 passengers are suffering from Covid-19 but late in the night the Municipal Corporation revised these figures to 139.
The BMC had collected samples of 1,827 passengers aboard the ship after it reached the International Cruise Terminal at Ballardpierre in South Mumbai.
