Dharavi COVID-19 Tally Crosses 2,500-Mark With 10 New Cases

Mumbai:

The coronavirus tally in Mumbai’s slum colony of Dharavi surpassed the two,500-mark on Tuesday with the addition of 10 new circumstances, town civic frame mentioned.

In step with a senior BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Company) authentic, the tally of COVID-19 circumstances within the slum -dominated space rose to two,502 with 10 new infections.

He mentioned Dharavi now has 151 lively COVID-19 circumstances, whilst the choice of recovered sufferers stood at 2,101.

The civic frame has, alternatively, stopped sharing figures of COVID-19 deaths, if any, in Dharavi since closing month.

Unfold over 2.five sq. kilometres, Dharavi is regarded as as one of the most biggest slums in Asia with a inhabitants of over 6.five lakh.

Dharavi’s COVID-19 circumstances tally has crossed the two,500mark in 112 days as the primary affected person used to be discovered within the space on April 1.

In Dharavi, the primary 500 circumstances have been reported in 33 days, whilst the tally crossed the 1,000 mark within the subsequent 10 days.

The circumstances surpassed the 1,500-mark in some other 10 days, and it took 20 extra days to achieve 2,000.

In step with BMC knowledge, the unfold of COVID-19 has bogged down significantly and it took 39 days so as to add some other 500 circumstances to achieve the prevailing degree.

The slum colony, as soon as a COVID-19 hotspot, used to be hailed through the WHO a couple of days again for pulling down the transmission curve. 

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