Of the total number of 23,002 people, who tested positive for COVID-19 in the first two months of this year, 90 per cent were residents of buildings and 10 per cent others from slums and chawls, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release.
“But we are now receiving a large number of patients from slums as well. Most of them are from middle and lower-class background,” a senior doctor of a civic hospital, who did not wish to be named, said.
The number of coronavirus containment zones and sealed buildings in the city increased by 170per cent and 66.42 per cent, respectively, from the beginning of this month, the civic body said.
According to the BMC’s COVID-19 dashboard, while the city had 10 containment zones and 137 sealed buildings on March 1, the number of containment zones increased to 27 and sealed buildings to 228 on March 10.
The dashboard pointed out that of the 7.46 lakh people living in these zones, over 23 per cent were from slums and chawls, while the remaining 77 per cent were from sealed buildings.
Mumbai’s coronavirus tally till Thursday night was 3,38,631, while the death toll was 11,515.
Surjitt Sahani
