Passengers travelling to Panvel and Dombivli wait for buses at a Dadar stop. File pic
Requesting anonymity, an NMMC official said, "We are conducting 1,000 tests per day, out of which 60 per cent are RtPCR and the remaining are antigen. A week ago we were doing about 2,500 to 3,000 tests daily, but as the number of symptomatic patients decreased, the tests have been reduced to one-third. As more and more people are getting asymptomatic, the daily tests and daily cases have reduced."
The NMMC reported 61 cases on Monday, whereas PMC recorded just 19 infections. The fall in daily cases also had an impact on the total number of active cases. The NMMC currently has 1,115 active cases and PMC 445.
"As the number of symptomatic patients are decreasing, we fear that many asymptomatic carriers might spread the virus. So we plan to conduct surprise tests in crowded places such as APMC and MIDC. It will help us keep a tab on the infection. As people have stopped coming forward for tests, we have to go to them," said another NMMC official.
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COVID-19 numbers
NMMC
Total cases - 46,222
Total deaths - 942
Active cases - 1,115
PMC
Total cases - 24,447
Total deaths - 567
Active cases - 445
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