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Mumbai’s TPR sees minor drop; daily deaths rise to 6
Updated On: 08 January, 2022 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
While the experts predict the daily numbers to rise further, the silver lining is that about 84 per cent of new patients are asymptomatic
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A civic health worker collects a swab sample of a passenger who arrived aboard a Bhuj train, at Dadar station, on Friday. Pic/Ashish Raje
After seeing a constant rise in the test positivity rate (TPR) for the past few weeks, Mumbai witnessed a marginal drop in the figure on Friday. The city reported a TPR of 28.9 per cent after 72,442 tests were conducted on Friday, down from 29.9 per cent on Thursday.
The daily cases rose, but marginally, to 20,971 from 20,181 the day before, while deaths increased to six. On Thursday, the city had seen a jump of 5,015 cases.
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