Schools shut for Classes I-IX till Jan 31 in Mumbai

Mumbai: Amid the surge in the Covid-19 and Omicron cases, the authorities  announced on Monday that schools for standard 1 to 9 would remain closed in Mumbai and neighbouring Thane till January 31.

With no let up in the spread of the pandemic,  Maharashtra on Monday recorded 12,160 Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of cases from 66,99,868 cases to 67,12,028 cases. Similarly, the state recorded 68 Omicron cases, taking the total number of Covid-19 variant cases from 510 cases to 578 cases.

Mumbai Municipal Commissioner I S Chahal and Thane district collector Rajesh Narvekar made separate announcements about the closure of all schools in Mumbai and Thane for standard 1 to 9 from January 4, 2022 to January 31, even as Mumbai recorded 8082 Covid-19 cases and 40 Omicron cases while Thane registered 2084 Covid-19 cases and went blank on the Omicron front. However, the classes for standard 10 and 12 would continue.

As 1748 patients were discharged from the hospitals across the state after full recovery, the total number of people discharged from the hospitals since the second week of March last year increased from  65,12,610 cases to 65,14,358 cases . The recovery rate in the state dropped from 97.21 per cent to 97.05 per cent.

The number of “active cases” in the state increased 42,024 cases to 52,422 cases.  The fatality rate in the state dropped from 2.11 per cent to 2.1 per cent.   

Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 37,274 cases, while there were 6309 active cases in Thane.  There were 3808 active  cases  in Pune, followed by Palghar (1080), Raigad  (980), Nashik (691),,  Ahmednagar (346), Nagpur (406) and Satara (336).

Of the 6,93,70,095 +samples sent to various laboratories across the state so far, 67,12,028 have tested positive (9.68 per cent) for COVID-19 until Monday.Currently, 3,32,610  people are in home quarantine while 1,096 people are in institutional



quarantine.

Meanwhile, the State recorded 68 cases of Omicron, taking the total number of new Covid-19 variant cases to 578 cases. Of the new Omicron cases reported on Monday, 34 have been reported by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) while 34 cases were reported by National Chemical Laboratory (NCL),

Of the 68 omicron cases reported in the state on Sunday, Mumbai accounted for a maximum of 40 cases, followed Pune Municipal Corporation (14), Nagpur (4)  Pune rural and Panvel– 3  each, Kolhapur, Navi Mumbai, Raigad and satrara- 1 each.

The following is the break-up of a  total 460 Omicron cases recorded in the state so far, Mumbai: 368, PMC-63, Pimpri-Chinchwad--36 Pune rural --26, Thane MC- 13,  Panvel –11, Nagpur—10, Navi Mumbai-9,  Kalyan Dombivli, Satara —7 each, Osmanabad – 5, Vasai-Virar-4, Nanded—3, Aurangabad, Buldhana, Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Mira-Bhayandar, Sangli and Kolhapur-2 each—2 each, Ssangli-2 each,  Latur, Ahmednagar, Akola and Raigad—1 each.

Of the total cases 259 patients have been discharged after a negative RT–PCR test.

In a related development,  the authorities said the total number of passengers who arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur airports since December 1 was 2,23,630 (32,705 from At-risk countries and rest 1,90,925 are from other countries), while passengers whose RT-PC tests have been done are 51,735 (32,705 are from high-risk countries and 19030 are from other countries). Similarly, RT-PCR positive and samples sent for genomic sequencing was 490( 302 are from at-risk countries and 188 are from other countries).

Additionally, field surveillance of all international passengers who have arrived since 1st November is underway.

“Through airport and field surveillance, 2375 samples have been sent for genomic sequencing. The results of 166 are awaited so far,” the daily health bulletin said.