sharp rise in daily cases of COVID-19 And the rise of the new version omicron There has been an increase in containment zones and sealed buildings in Mumbai. Areas such as Bandra, Colaba, Fort, Malabar Hill, Andheri and GG Worli have higher spread of infection as the average growth rate has increased in the last seven days.
On Saturday, Mumbai recorded 5,631 cases which is the highest in the last eight months. The positivity rate has reached 11.86 per cent out of 47,472 tests conducted.
BMC officials said that more cases are being reported from tall buildings than slums – almost 90 per cent of new cases are from buildings.
As of December 30, Mumbai has 11 active containment zones (chawls and slums) and 128 active sealed buildings, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) dashboard data. Till December 25, there were zero containment zones and 22 sealed buildings in the city with a doubling rate of only 1,139 days.
Containment zones have been created in slums or chawls with high population density to prevent the virus from spreading outside the area. Similarly, if five or more cases are reported in a building, it is sealed to prevent the spread of the virus.
The data shows that L ward (Kurla) has the highest number of containment zones—seven—with the maximum population of people living in slums or chawls. Three containment zones are in D ward (Malabar Hill, Grant Road) and one in G-South ward (Worli).
Of the 128 active sealed buildings, the highest – 55 – are in the D ward, which comprises plush areas of south Mumbai including the Raj Bhavan, Kamala Nehru Park and the Babulnath Temple area. There are 28 sealed buildings in K-West ward (Andheri, Jogeshwari) and nine in A ward (Colaba, Fort).
Apart from these, there are 3,020 active sealed floors across the city.
“Arounds like Bandra, Colaba, Malabar Hill, Worli and Andheri are registering a surge in cases. The weekly growth rate of Covid cases is higher than Mumbai’s overall average of 0.20 percent. This shows that the transmission between buildings is high. A health department official said that this wave is spreading rapidly, so everyone needs to be more careful.
As per the data, the average Covid case growth rate in H-West ward is 0.45 per cent, followed by A ward at 0.38 per cent and D ward at 0.32 per cent.
In the last 15 days, active cases of COVID-19 have seen a more than six-fold increase from 1,797 on December 15 to 11,360 cases on December 31. The BMC said on Friday that 55 percent of the new cases are from Omicron.
The data shows that nearly 50 per cent of the active cases are from seven wards which include areas like Andheri, Jogeshwari, Malabar Hill, Grant Road, Sion and Worli.
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