The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation health officials have claimed that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has peaked in their jurisdiction. The daily cases which had crossed the 2,000-mark, have halved within a week. There are 17,000 active cases in Navi Mumbai and 5,935 patients have been admitted to hospitals and quarantine centres, while the rest have been quarantined at home. This leaves over 50 per cent of available beds vacant.

Officials expect the cases to go down further. There have been 11 deaths in the past 30 days, so the death rate is also low even in the third wave. Like Mumbai, the third wave struck Navi Mumbai hard. The daily Covid cases which had gone down to 18 on December 20 started rising and were at 2,629 on January 9. The cases peaked on  January 13 and were at 18,289. But for the past 5 days, the daily case number is continuously on the  decline.