Testing for Covid will be ramped up in Mumbai as the test positivity rate in the city has jumped to six per cent, the civic physique Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or BMC, said today. It has asked officials to right now extend checking out “on struggle footing”. Testing labs have additionally been requested to be proactive and entirely staffed.
“Daily active cases have quite accelerated in Mumbai, with monsoon around the corner, we will now see a fast upward jab in symptomatic cases,” it warned.
The BMC has similarly asked for the vaccination power in the 12-18 years category, and booster doses, to be pushed aggressively. Fearing every other sharp upward shove in symptomatic cases, the civic body has requested for jumbo field hospitals to be kept safely staffed and on alert now.
Private hospitals have additionally been asked to be on alert. Other readiness measures like reviewing the condition of ward war rooms to ensure they are utterly outfitted with staff, clinical teams, and ambulances have been ordered.
If hospitalisation increases in the coming days, the jumbo medical institution in Malad is to be used on priority.
Yesterday, Mumbai recorded 506 new Covid cases, the largest daily count since February 6 (536 cases) this year.
Mumbai has witnessed a extra than 100 per cent increase in the quantity of Covid cases confirmed in May as compared to the cases suggested in April this year.
