To take preventive steps early and save lives, BrihanMumbai municipal corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has urged citizens to come forward and get themselves tested.
Mumbai has seen a dip in Covid-19 cases in the last few days after an unprecedented increase in cases since the start of the second wave, when the BMC increased testing to as many as 56,000 tests on a single day.
Chahal said that aggressive testing policy has brought down reduction in the positivity rate in Mumbai city which might have reduced the natural demand for home collection of swabs by citizens in the last few days. “But the number of daily tests needs to increase.”