The number of active cases touched 34,000 around mid-September and towards the end of the month it came down to 26,000. The recovery rate of the patients in the city has reached an all-time high of 82 per cent and the death toll is slightly on the lower side.

The number of new cases in the city rose in June after the first unlock phase. The average number of cases in May was around 1,000 per day, which increased to 1,250 in June and July, then declined to 1,000 in August. But, as the BMC started conducting more COVID-19 tests in September, the number of average daily new infections soared to almost double — 1,960. The doubling rate increased and recovery rate decreased in mid-September, but the recovery rate increased in the past week as more than 80 per cent cases were asymptomatic.