After 23 months, COVID-19 numbers are at their lowest in February though fatalities remain higher than in December. As per BMC numbers, December saw 35 deaths just before the start of the third wave. So far in February, the city lost 42 lives to Coronavirus, with 138 citizens still in critical condition. The city has seen eight ‘zero death’ days in this month.

Things seem set to go to pre-pandemic times after almost two years and three waves, two of which were disastrous. February will remain the month when cases plummeted like never before. In the first 26 days of this month, the city recorded 10, 782 cases, the fourth-lowest monthly toll since the pandemic hit India—March 2020, August 2021 and November 2021. With 42 deaths, the case fatality rate stands at 0.39 per cent. At 35 fatalities, the figure was 0.17 per cent in December.