Nagpur outnumbers Mumbai’s Covid cases; Vidarbha a growing hotspot

The number of new Covid-19 cases found in Mumbai was 1,509 on Thursday whereas that in Nagpur (Vidarbha) was 2,150.

India reported 23,285 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, exactly a year after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. This was India's highest number of daily cases since 24 December 2020. Every six out of 10 cases in India are from this western state. This week, Maharashtra recorded a 5-month high rate in the daily Covid-19 cases. The spike is predominantly in the Vidarbha region of the state. It is broadly made up of Nagpur and Amravati divisions and occupies a little less than one-third of the entire state. While Mumbai and Pune were witnessing a sudden rise in Covid cases every day, the daily number of cases in Nagpur have exceeded that in Mumbai and have made the district a hotspot. The number of new Covid-19 cases found in Mumbai was 1,509 on Thursday whereas that in Nagpur was 2,150.