<span style="color: #222222;">The Inter Ministerial Central Team – IMCT has refuted certain media reports claiming that it has projected coronavirus cases in Mumbai to touch 42,604 by 30th April and 6.5 lakh by mid-May. In a statement issued from Mumbai today, the IMCT clarified that no such projection has been made. The committee said, the projections seem to be based on a hypothetical mathematical model, calculated at a doubling rate of 3.8 days. It informed that currently, the doubling rate in Mumbai has increased to 7.1 days.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The central team visiting Mumbai had yesterday asked the state government to augment institutional quarantine facilities in dense slum pockets and also ramp up its contact tracing programme in slum areas.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''<br />''Following a meeting with the committee members, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope has stated that the state government has increased surveillance, screening, testing and treatment in a bid to arrest the COVID-19 outbreak.</span><br />