Mumbai: 72
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Mumbai: The city has recorded a 72% fall in the number of Covid-19 cases in the first 24 days of June, as compared to the first 24 days of May, reveals the state health department data. Further, the number of deaths has also gone down drastically in June, as compared to May. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced that the city will continue to remain under level-3 restrictions, a day after the Maharashtra government tightened lockdown norms. According to the data, between May 1 and May 24, 42,991 cases were reported in the city, which went down to 11,921 cases in June. Subsequently, in the same period during May, 1,356 deaths were reported that went down to 488 in June.
In the same period, overall 1,282,906 tests were carried out in the city, of which, 658,210 were carried out in May and 624,696 were carried out in June.
According to BMC officers, though the cases have gone down, they will have to remain on high alert owing to the detection of Delta plus variant of Covid-19. Owing to the same, Maharashtra tightened its lockdown norms on Friday deciding to impose stricter lockdown norms, reducing the five-level relaxation plan to three.
