Mumbai did not report any deaths on Sunday COVID-19 For the first time since March 26, 2020. The city recorded 367 positive cases on Sunday, taking its total caseload to 7.5 lakh, with 5,920 active Covid patients. The death toll in the city is 16,180.
“Mumbai recorded zero Covid deaths after 26 March 2020. This is great news for all of us in Mumbai. As Municipal Commissioner, I salute Team MCGM for their excellent performance. Let us all put masks on our faces and let every citizen of Mumbai get vaccinated, if some of us haven’t yet,” Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said in a statement.
Mumbai had reported its first Covid death on March 17, 2020, six days after a 64-year-old man had tested positive. In the last 19 months, only on March 26, 2020, Mumbai had reported zero deaths. Mumbai recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in June 2020, with 136 deaths.
While the daily Covid cases have seen a slight increase in the last two months following relaxation in the lockdown guidelines and festivals like Ganeshotsav and Navratri, the city has been reporting single-digit deaths since August 2.
Chahal said that 97% of Mumbai’s eligible citizens have received a single dose of vaccination and 55% have been fully vaccinated. According to BMC data, so far 1.34 crore people have been given at least one dose of the vaccine, while 48.33 lakh people have been fully vaccinated with both doses.
According to officials, the decline in the number of deaths due to Kovid-19 is mainly due to vaccination. “The vaccines are proving to be effective as the number of deaths has come down in the last three months, while the number of positive patients was high,” said a BMC official.
Meanwhile, of the 343 samples sent for genome sequencing, 54 per cent were of ‘delta variants’, 34 per cent were of ‘delta derivatives’ and the remaining 12 per cent belonged to other strains. According to the BMC, only three Covid patients who died were not vaccinated, while very few of those who were vaccinated required hospitalisation.
On Sunday, the civic body released the data of 343 Covid patients, whose samples were taken for genome sequencing at the laboratory at Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli.
The data shows that 185 belonged to the delta variant, 117 to the delta derivative and 40 of the patients belonged to other strains. The civic body said in a statement that out of the total samples tested, 121 had not been vaccinated. All three deaths were among illiterate people. There were two Delta derived fatalities and one was from the Delta variant.
According to the data, 168 people with double doses were infected, out of which 46 were hospitalised. There were 54 patients treated with a single dose of the vaccine, of whom seven were hospitalized for treatment.
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