While the coronavirus cases are rising in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday has said that the coronavirus outbreak in the city has reached the stage of community transmission.
As per a report by The New Indian Express, the civic body has said that fresh cases emerging in Mumbai are neither contacts of patients nor have any travel history. The city has recorded 525 coronavirus cases while 34 people have died due to the deadly virus.
The maximum number of cases, 113, has been recorded in G-South Ward. While Mumbai’s E Ward has the second-highest number of cases, 59. “We are more worried and concerned about the health workers and doctors who have been tested coronavirus positive,” a senior BMC official told The New Indian Express. “In Mumbai, more than 50 people from the medical fraternity are detected as virus-positive. The community spreading has therefore been started as we see a surge in a number of cases from various parts of the city. We are declaring these areas as contaminated cluster and subsequently sealing them.”
On the fourteenth day of the national lockdown on Tuesday Maharashtra reported a sharp spike by 150 in coronavirus positive cases, with Mumbai alone accounting for 116, taking the overall tally of the affected people in the state to 1018. Maharashtra thus became the first state in the country to report more than 1,000 coronavirus cases.