Mumbai on Friday reported over 3,000 fresh COVID-19 infections, the highest single-day surge since the outbreak of the virus in 2020.
In the last six days, starting from March 14, Mumbai alone added around 13,912 cases to Maharashtra’s caseload, according to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation data.
Mid-February marks the beginning of a surge in COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra.
Mumbai is reporting a spike in daily cases since then.
But this week, it broke all records as even when the pandemic was at its peak in 2020, Mumbai’s daily caseload never breached the 3,000-mark.
The highest of 2020 was on October 7 when Mumbai recorded 2,848 infections in a day. This record has been broken twice this week.
On March 18, Mumbai reported 2,877 cases and on March 19, the city reported 3,062 fresh infections.
In one week, the daily tally breached both the 2,000- and the 3,000-mark.
On March 14, there were 1,962 daily cases.
March 15 registered a slight dip with 1,712 cases.
On March 16, there were 1,922 fresh cases.
A day later, 2,377 daily infections were reported on March 17.
Surjitt Sahani
