Coronavirus in Mumbai: Maximum City crosses 10,000 COVID-19 cases mark, death toll reaches 412

Coronavirus in Mumbai: Maximum City crosses 10,000 COVID-19 cases mark, death toll reaches 412

AgenciesUpdated: Wednesday, May 06, 2020, 10:19 PM IST
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The number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai crossed the 10,000-mark to 10,527 on Wednesday with 769 more people testing positive for coronavirus and 25 others succumbing to the viral infection, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

The overall death toll now stands at 412, a release said.

A total of 159 patients were discharged from various hospitals after recovery, taking their number to 2,287, it said.

"443 new suspected coronavirus cases have been admitted in various hospitals," the release said.

Meanwhile, with 34 fatalities, the state death toll shot up from to 651 and the total number of coronavirus patients increased to touch 16,758.

Given the increasing number of cases and deaths, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray appealed to the defence, railways, ports and all other central undertakings in the state to give their premises as well as ICU beds for COVID-19 patients.

He made a personal appeal to Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Railways, ports and other central organisations stationed in Maharashtra, to take care of the fresh influx expected after the lockdown is lifted and international flights resume operations.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the state government has ordered all private doctors - around 15,000 in Mumbai - to either restart their clinics and nursing homes, or work for government hospitals in view of the Corona situation.

"We are also appealing to all private doctors to work at least 15 days in government hospitals and keep their clinics/nursing homes open, and failure to comply would attract action," he said.

Tope added that the state presently has 54 testing labs including 24 in the private sector and 30 in government, where a total of around 8,000-10,000 Covid-19 tests are carried out daily, which is one of the reasons for the high number of cases coming to light.

The state government is in the process of setting up a Wuhan-like 1,000-bed hospital for isolating and treating COVID-19 patients at the Bandra Kurla Complex grounds which will be operational by the month-end.

Of the total 34 deaths, 25 were recorded in Mumbai alone - taking the city toll to 412 and the number of Covid-19 positive patients in the city shot up by 769 to 10,714.

Dharavi alone recorded 68 new cases, taking the total in Asia's biggest slum to 733 cases and 21 deaths.

Besides Mumbai's 26 deaths, Pune recorded 3 fresh deaths as did Akola while one death each was recorded from Jalgaon and Solapur.

The dead comprised 21 men and 13 women, and nearly 79 percent of them suffered from other serious ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, heart problems and asthma.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (Thane Division) continued to cause major worries with 441 Covid-19 deaths and 12,716 patients.

Pune Division trails a distant second with 132 deaths and 2,351 patients.

The next area of concern is Nashik Division with 31 deaths and 632 positive cases, followed by Aurangabad Division with 12 deaths and 441 patients and finally, Akola Division with 20 deaths and 273 patients.

Besides, new cases were recorded in Nashik Division (61), Kolhapur Division (09), Aurangabad Division (36), Akola Division (31), and Nagpur Division (01).

On the positive side, 275 fully cured patients returned home, taking the number of those discharged to 3,094.

Meanwhile, the number of people in home quarantine increased to 211,112 and those in institutional quarantine increased from 12,456 to 13,107 while and the state's containment zones increased from 943 to 1,048 today.

As many as 11,692 teams have carried out a survey of a population of around 51.1 lakhs in the state till date.

(With IANS and PTI inputs)

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