While some doctors in Mumbai contended that cases in the capital city might never go below 600 as opposed to 300 plus cases reported at the end of the first wave in December-January.
Experts have attributed a number of reasons behind this stagnant decline in cases.
“When cases in the first-hit districts reached a plateau, cases in others began to peak,” said a senior official told TOI.
Statistics released by Western Railway show that 28 lakh people returned to Maharashtra, including 7.8 lakh to Mumbai in the May-June period.
Among other possibilities, a doctor from a govt hospital noted that an average number of tests conducted in the state could also be attributed to this phenomenon.