Mumbai’s Dharavi sees highest spike in 4 months, experiences 16 new Covid instances

Image Source : PTI A well being employee throughout a door-to-door screening within the wake of COVID-19, at Dharavi in Mumbai.
The slum-dominated Dharavi space in Mumbai recorded 16 new coronavirus instances on Friday, the very best day by day rise since October, a senior official of the
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) mentioned.

The caseload within the densely populated space, referred to as Asia’s largest slum, thus reached 4,066. Of these, 3,699 sufferers have already recovered whereas there are 51 lively instances.

Earlier, on October 23 final yr, Dharavi had reported 18 new instances and since then, barring a number of days, the variety of new instances had been in single digit.On some days the world didn’t report a single new case.

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In the primary week of February, the day by day spike was within the vary of zero to 5, however the variety of instances started to climb from the second week, as in the remainder of Mumbai and Maharashtra.

“We are aggressively testing as many people as possible to curb the spread, so the number has risen,” the BMC official mentioned.

Spread over 2.5 sq km, Dharavi has a inhabitants of over 6.5 lakh.

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