After the number of tests reduced in Diwali, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has increased testing again, with 11,493 done on Tuesday. The number of antigen tests, used as mass testing, is more than RT-PCR tests. The corporation has also started 244 new centres for testing against the background of the possibility of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There were on average 13,145 tests every day in October. The all-time high number of tests was 16,723 and 16,636 conducted on October 14 and 24 respectively. The number reduced to merely 5,000 a day on average during Diwali. There were 5,399, 3,918 and 6,539 tests conducted from November 14 to 16 with an average Test Positivity Rate (TPR) of 9.6 per cent. But after the festival, the BMC has geared up for the possibility of the second wave.