Mumbai, on Monday, November 16, 2020, reported 409 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest single-day addition since May, which has taken the tally to 2,70,113 with 12 patients succumbing to the viral infection, also lowest since May, whereby the overall toll of the deceased went up to 10,582. The report was released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Furthermore, the number of active cases fell below to 9,807 during data reconciliation. With 529 people getting discharged in the day, the count of recoveries in the city rose to 2,45,774, which is about 91 per cent of the tally of the total COVID-19 cases.
The average doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in the city has jumped to 273 days, while the average growth rate stands at 0.25 per cent, as per BMC. A total of 16.89 lakh samples have been tested so far in Mumbai, it added.
Meanwhile, Dharavi, on Monday, reported one COVID-19 case, taking the total count of infections to 3,621, the city civic body said. This is for the fifth time this month that the slum colony which was once the COVID-19 hotspot has reported one coronavirus case in a single day, Dharavi now has only 14 active cases.
Testing numbers dropped by 50 per cent in the city due to a weekend of festivities, raising concerns about cases going undetected or picked up late in the infection. While the slide in daily testing numbers started from last Tuesday, it dropped to almost half of the daily average on Saturday. Merely 5,399 tests were carried out on Saturday, according to the BMC dashboard. The city was clocking an average of 13,000-14,000 tests in November which dipped to 10,000 since Monday.
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