MBMC records sharp rise in Covid deaths

The Covid-19 data shared by the health department of the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has exposed some disturbing trends in context to the number of casualties which has witnessed an alarming upward trend since last month. While 206 casualties were reported in April, the numbers were limited to 21 in March, 9 in Februar y and 12 deaths in

Januar y this year. While the case fatality rate (CFR) continues to hover above 2.40 percent, the active case ratio and rate of recover y are pegged at 6.99 percent and 90.62 percent respectively.

While April 30 topped the list with 12 casualties, the MBMC has already reported 55 casualties in the first week of May. With this, the total number of deaths had now mounted to 1096 till Friday night. Af ter an astronomical rise in the number of daily detections which shot up as high as 555 in mid-April, there has been a gradual slow down in fresh detection for the past one week. As many as 1,969 people were found positive for the infection this month, clocking an average of around 250 detections per day unlike earlier when the number of positive cases hovered at an average of 350 to 500 plus on a daily basis. Moreover, 3,293 patients have recovered and discharged from various healthcare facilities in the corresponding period.