Maharashtra’s lowest number of active cases in the first wave (excluding the March to May 2020 period) were recorded at 30,265 on February 11, 2021. Its lowest number of active cases during the second wave stood at 6,286 on December 8, 2021.
As of February 28, 2022, the number of active cases in Maharashtra had fallen to 6,663, replicating the levels seen before the omicron wave in December last year. On March 1, active cases fell further to 6,106 – the lowest level in the past three covid waves in the state
Their representatives said that the hospitals confirmed the trend as they have now started reporting zero Covid admissions for consecutive days, for the first time since March 2020.
Dr Dhananjay Kelkar, Medical Director of Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital told TOI that at present only three Covid patients were admitted in the Covid ward in the hospital. “There have been days in the last two weeks when we had no covid admissions. In terms of daily covid admissions, the order is 0,1,0,1. The daily admissions hadn’t dropped to these levels since covid hit 2020. took the form of an epidemic,” he said.
Dr. Urvi Shukla, Chief Intensivist at Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Center said, “In terms of daily admissions, we have not seen any for the last two weeks. It is less than the tail-end of the second wave. When the cases in the second wave it is Even then, we used to have patients daily for admission.”
Dr Krishnapal Karmodia, assistant professor of biology at IISER, who is involved in genome sequencing of SARS-Cov-2 samples from Pune, told TOI, “Even though the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is currently on most of the samples in India. dominates, cases continue to decline. Although it is being said in scientific circles that this sub-variant is more permeable than BA.1 (also an Omicron sub-variant), we have found another version of BA.2 in India. The peak has not been seen. This could have been because many have vaccine-based immunity, natural immunity and even hybrid immunity. There is not much left in the sub-version to be infected. As long as its (B.A.2) By the time attendance increased, many were already immunised.”