COVID-19: At 700, Mumbai logs lowest spike in 3 months

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, July 28

Mumbai, the top Covid hotspot, today recorded the lowest single-day rise in new cases in three months.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation reported 700 cases in the city in the past 24 hours, the sharpest daily decline seen so far. Mumbai is the second Covid red zone after Delhi to show a decline in daily new cases.

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Member, Health, NITI Aayog, VK Paul said if the decline sustained over some days, one could conclude that Mumbai disease graph was peaking.

Delhi started showing a similar decline in daily new cases about a fortnight ago, with AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria declaring about 10 days ago that the peak seemed to have arrived. Paul said the peak would come earlier in highly burdened states and later in other states where infections were surging now.

Thanks to the drop in cases in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi, the national Covid surge in 24 hours remained less than 50,000, although the daily new cases nationally were higher than 45,000 for the sixth day today.

The single-day rise in cases in the country was 47,703, taking the total load to 14,83,156 with the fatality rate falling further to 2.25 per cent from yesterday’s 2.28 per cent. With 9,52,743 recoveries, the cure rate rose to 64.24 per cent. Toll from the disease now is 33,425 with 654 deaths in 24 hours. As many as 35,176 patients were discharged.

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