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Covid-19 surge: No need to panic, insists civic body
Updated On: 22 December, 2023 07:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Sameer Surve
Test positivity doubles in December compared to Nov
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Even as the test positivity rate of COVID-19 more than doubled in the city compared to November 2023, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s health department claims there is no need to panic as the situation is unlike the past. In December, 34 patients tested positive for COVID-19; however, the civic health department is yet to perform the genome sequencing of test samples.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday at the civic headquarters, Additional Municipal Commissioner Dr Sudhakar Shinde said that the new variant, JN.1, was found in a patient in Thane and another in Sindhudurg district. We are ready with the necessary health arrangements in Mumbai. The test positivity rate of COVID-19 was 3.3 per cent on December 21, 2023. While the test positivity rate in November was 1.6 per cent. Of the 34 patients who tested positive in December, 86 per cent resided in high-rise buildings. This may be due to more testing in high-rises, Dr Shinde said.
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