For the first time since Mumbai’s latest surge in coronavirus cases, the city’s slum-dominated Dharavi area saw no new infections on Friday, a citizen official said. G-North assistant council commissioner Kiran Dighavkar said after 39 days, new cases in the densely populated area had dropped to zero. It last recorded zero cases on December 20, 2021.
Dighavkar added that the area now has 43 active cases, of which 11 are hospitalized. The number of coronavirus cases in Dharavi stands at 8,581, of which 8,121 have recovered. Briham Mumbai Municipal Corporation has not released the death toll in the area.
It recorded a record 150 new cases on January 6, 2022, before the numbers started to drop. Dharavi has more than 2.5 square kilometers of shantytowns and micro-industrial units and has a population of about 650,000.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s Thane district reported 1,079 new positive cases of coronavirus, taking its infections to 6,99,961, an official said on Saturday, while the death toll of eight patients rose to 11,759 people. Those cases and deaths were reported on Friday, he said.
Thane’s COVID-19 death rate is 1.67%. In the neighbouring Parga district, the number of cases was 1,61,552 and the death toll was 3,369, another official said.
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