90% COVID-19 Cases In Mumbai In Last 2 Months Were From High-Rises: BMC
Mumbai: In Mumbai, 90 per cent of patients who tested positive for COVID-19 in January and February this year were residents of high-rise buildings, while the remaining 10 per cent were from slums and cities, the city civic body has said.
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However, the situation has changed somewhat this month as the number of slum cases is also increasing, civic officials said.
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Out of a total of 23,002 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the first two months of this year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that 90 per cent of the residents were from the building and another 10 per cent, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said a release.
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“But we are now receiving a large number of patients from slums as well. Most of them are from the middle and lower class background,” a senior doctor of a civic hospital, who did not wish to be named, said.
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The number of Coronavirus Consent Zones and Seal buildings in the city increased by 170per per cent and 66.42 per cent, respectively, from the beginning of this month.
According to BMC’s COVID-19 dashboard, while the city had 10 containment zones and 137 sealed buildings on March 1, the number of containment areas increased to 27 on March 10 and the number of sealed buildings to 228.
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The dashboard reported that out of 7.46 lakh people living in these zones, more than 23 per cent were from slums and chawls, while the remaining 77 per cent were from sealed buildings.
An Assistant Municipal Commissioner said that the number of COVID-19 cases from slums has certainly increased, but it cannot be called a spike.
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Also, the patients are scattered across slums and not concentrated in any particular pocket of the slums.
Mumbai’s coronavirus tally till Thursday night was 3,38,631, while the death toll was 11,515.
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