Despite a 16-day complete lockdown and an ongoing lockdown at 42 hotspots for the past nine days, COVID-19 cases in Navi Mumbai are not showing any signs of decrease. The daily rise in cases has crossed the 300 mark and the mortality remains 3 per cent.

Officials of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) have attributed the rise to aggressive testing along with antigen tests. Cases should eventually decrease, they said.