Mumbai : Mumbai on Sunday didn’t report any COVID Deaths for the first time since March 2020, said city civic commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal. The country’s financial capital, one of the worst-affected cities in the pandemic, logged 367 cases of the infection on Sunday.
Chahal quotes this no covid death day as a great news. He said, “This is great news for all of us in Mumbai.”
“As municipal commissioner, I salute team MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) for their spectacular performance,” he added.
The metropolis had reported its first coronavirus infection on 11 March 2020, and its first death six days later on 17 March that year.
Mumbai had recorded the highest 11,163 cases on 4 April this year and the most number of deaths at 90 on 1 May.
Further, Chahal said that a total of 97% of the eligible citizens of Mumbai have received their first dose of vaccination and 55% are fully vaccinated.
“Let us all keep the mask on our face and let every citizen of Mumbai get vaccinated if some of us haven’t yet. I appeal to everyone to help us keep Mumbai safe,” he added.
The positivity rate has dipped to 1.27% in the metropolis which now has 5,030 active cases. The city’s recovery rate stands at 97%.
Over 28,600 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours in the city, officials said.
Although there are no active containment zones in the city, 50 buildings continue to remain sealed.
At the peak of the second wave of the pandemic, the city witnessed a tidal wave of Covid cases – over 11,000 cases in a day – and an unprecedented number of deaths.
Amid an unparalleled surge in daily cases earlier this year, the city struggled with an acute shortage of healthcare infra and medical oxygen for patients. Families grappled to get hospital beds and medicines for those infected with the deadly virus. An extraordinary number of deaths every day overwhelmed crematoriums.
Mumbai has so far logged 7,50,808 cases of coronavirus with 16,180 deaths.
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