The number of Covid-19 triggered deaths mounted to 49 in Mumbai’s hotspot Dharavi on Thursday, even as 33 more infected cases were recorded taking the total number of positive cases in Asia’s biggest slum to 1,061.
While two more persons succumbed to Covid-19 on Thursday, the authorities added seven more deaths reported earlier to the total death tally in Dharavi.
“The seven deaths which we have added to the tally today are the ones of persons who had died earlier on different dates, but the information about their deaths conveyed to ward office concerned subsequently. With the two fresh deaths and seven deaths added to death tally today, the total number of deaths in Dharavi has mounted to 49," a senior officer of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
A maximum five infected cases were reported from Kumbharwada. Matunga Labour Camp, from where a maximum number of Coronavirus cases have been reported in recent weeks, reported four positive cases on Thursday.
Two positive cases each were reported from Chamda Bazar and Jeevanjyot Rahiwasi Sangh area.
Matunga Labour camp, which had on Wednesday accounted for four infected, has been the worst-hit area in Dharavi. On Tuesday, eight infected cases were recorded in Matunga Labour camp. On Monday, this area had registered eight cases. There was a seventeen- year-old among the eight newly infected persons on that day. Six positive cases had been reported from Matunga Labour camp on Sunday.
Spread over 240 hectare area, Dharavi is home to more than 4 lakh people. This slum has been one of major hotspots in Mumbai, ever since the first couple deaths and infected cases were reported from this slum in the first week of April.
In an effort to devise ways to arrest the rapid spread of pandemic in this slum, Mumbai’s new Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal had visited this slum and taken stock of the situation hours after he assumed the office on Saturday last.