Mumbai has now crossed the 50,000-mark with new coronavirus cases with the addition of 1,311 cases on Monday. This happened on the day economic relaxations began in the city.
Mumbai also recorded its highest death due to coronavirus which is 64, taking the overall toll to 1,702 on Monday. The city is now said to contribute nearly 57 per cent of the cases found in the country. Over the 50,000 cases in the country, 26,345 cases are active. Mumbai took 33 days to jump from ten thousand cases to fifty thousand cases. Moreover, the civic officials are expecting a surge in cases as private and government offices have opened with 10 per cent and 15 per cent staff respectively. Meanwhile, the rate of recovery has also witnessed a steady rise with 1,611 people getting discharged on Monday.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has authorized a 24 ward war room for decentralised bed allotment. As per SOP, the team will allot ICU/oxygen bed at local ward level nursing home or nearest jumbo facilities/DCHC/MCGM Hospital/private hospital after advice from the doctor. If ICU/beds are not obtainable, it will be coordinated with the central war room for allotment of beds. So far, there has been an acute shortage of doctors, nurses and Class III-IV workers. The civic body has ordered nurses and ward boys MIA from work to report work from this week or face a job loss, according to reports. Moreover, BEST has also started plying 200 buses from Monday, to help people reach their workplaces all across the city.
As a part of “Mission Begin Again” malls, restaurants, workplaces, and other establishments reopened in Maharashtra on Monday after a gap of three months as part of "Unlock-1", the first phase of the exit from the coronavirus-induced lockdown across the country. Traffic jams were observed as people came out on the streets especially on the Eastern and Western Express Highway, the road connecting two different parts of Mumbai.
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