Going by number-crunching, we are seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases not just in Mumbai but across Maharashtra. Numbers show that there have been over 600 cases in Mumbai. The doubling rate has gone from over 600 days to 400, which may give rise to niggling concerns.

We have reasons like the opening of local trains for everybody and the fact that there is an uptick in testing. All that may very well be true but let us not lose sight of the fact that there is a rise in cases, and this is reason enough to press not the alarm button but the caution button.