Health Minister Rajesh Tope has allayed fears that the Centre's health team's COVID-19 projections have created. He said the projections that Mumbai might have 42,604 cases by April 30 and 6.50 lakh patients by May 15 were nothing to worry about, because they were based on assumption that the situation would be static.

"It's a mathematical model and there is a science about it also. But let me tell you that things here will not be static because every possible effort is being made to contain the pandemic. The doubling rate has increased and it will increase further. The death rate has decreased. The daily recovery rate is 13 percent. Even the hotspots have decreased from 14 to 5," said Tope, while assuring the people in an online address Wednesday night.