A total of 706 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Mumbai, taking its overall count to 2,59,114. Also, 30 people succumbed to the infection, and with that, the city’s death toll climbed to 10,305. Active positive cases have fallen by 29% in Mumbai. Maharashtra reported a spike of 5,369 Covid-19 cases on Sunday. With this, the state has recorded 16,83,775 cases so far. Also, with 113 deaths in a single day, the number of deaths in Maharashtra now stands at 44,024.
According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the number of sealed buildings have reduced by 30% and containment zones have reduced by 13 %. The rate of infection (Ro) has fallen down steeply from 1.06% to 0.41%. The doubling rate for BMC has climbed from 66 days to 171 days. The death rate for the month of October has been 2.5% and the cumulative death rate has fallen from 4.4% to 3.9%.
The vacant Covid beds’ availability has risen from 4986 beds to 7817 beds. The number of vacant ICU beds availability has risen from 225 beds to 561 beds now. Against average daily testing of around 6500 in August, the average daily testing has been around 14000-16000 (mostly RT-PCR only). The discharge of patients has climbed from 82% to 89%. The number of critical patients in hospitals has dropped by 24 %.
Team-MCGM firmly believes that the above staggering and encouraging figures are as a result of ‘My Family My Responsibility’ campaign by MCGM from 15 September 2020 onwards. MCGM Health Survey teams visited 34.9 lakh families of Mumbaikars twice during this period out of 35.2 lakh families in Mumbai to physically check their health status and create awareness about wearing masks/ physical distancing/ sanitiser use. The city was painted with 738 mega commercial hoardings with campaign slogans(All hoardings offered free of cost by advertisement companies).3100 BEST buses were wrapped with ‘No Mask, No Entry’ stickers.
About 1,750 bus shelters were covered with ‘No Mask, No Entry’ slogans. Twenty lakh stickers with ‘No Mask, No Entry’ slogans were pasted in shops, office premises, etc. Over 1.5 lakh citizens were fined for not wearing masks/spitting and another five lakh citizens would be fined this month, if found without masks or spitting in public space, to create mass awareness for benefits of wearing masks. From Wednesday, 244 free testing centres have become operational, which are spread all across Mumbai.
Still in Mumbai, Malad West, Malvani, Dindoshi and Borivali have the highest number of Covid cases. BMC has started door to door screening of Mumbaikars.