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5,428 new covid cases in Mumbai today, 47% more than Thursday: 10 points

December 31, 2021
Bharat Times English News

Maharashtra reported 50% spike in daily Covid cases today (File)

New Delhi:
Mumbai today witnessed a massive 47% jump in daily Covid cases as 5,428 infections were reported from the financial capital in 24 hours. Of the 8,067 Covid cases, Maharashtra witnessed a 50% increase in daily cases. Eight deaths were reported in the same period.

Here are the top 10 points of this big story:

  1. Maharashtra today reported four cases of the highly transmissible Omicron type, taking the total number of ‘anxiety types’ in the state to 454.

  2. With Mumbai continuing to produce a tidal wave of cases filled with Omicron, beaches, sea faces, promenades, parks and other public places in the metropolis will remain open to the general public from 5 pm to 5 am until January. has given. 15.

  3. Senior police officer S Chaitanya said large gatherings have also been banned under an order of the Mumbai Police, which came into effect from 1 pm today and will remain in place till January 15.

  4. Fearing a third wave of coronavirus, Mumbai’s civic body has reactivated its ward-level war rooms to deal with the escalation. The War Room will manage hospital admissions, oxygen and drug requirements, and vaccinations

  5. On Thursday, Maharashtra reported 5,368 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, a 37 per cent increase from the day before. 198 of them were Omicrons. Mumbai too saw a massive jump of 46 per cent with 3,671 infections. At 190, the city also registered most of the state’s new Omicron patients.

  6. In Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s meeting with the state’s COVID task force yesterday, one of the major discussions was on the new variant which is believed to be increasing the infection in the state and across the world. Maharashtra has the highest total cases of omicrons in the country.

  7. Mumbai has seen a five-fold increase in daily cases in the past one week – the city had recorded 683 infections last Friday.

  8. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday said that at least 37 per cent of the Covid samples collected in Mumbai between December 21 and December 22 were found to be of the omicron variant and none had any travel history.

  9. Maharashtra is among the eight states that the Center wrote to on Thursday urging it to take immediate measures to check the sudden surge. “Take steps now to avoid the increased mortality rate,” was the advisory of the Centre, sources had said.

  10. At present, there are 24,509 active cases of coronavirus in Maharashtra, with 16,441 in Mumbai alone. 1,75,592 people are in home quarantine and 1,079 people are in institutional quarantine.

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