The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Friday, March 26, said that the civic body has decided to gear up the health care facilities to deal with the rising number of cases daily in the city.
For this, he has directed all its ward officers to be alert and be prepared for the worst scenario.
The civic body will increase the total bed capacity in Mumbai from 13,773 to 21,000 in the next 15 days in various hospitals for moderate to critically ill patients. Meanwhile, it has also decided to set up 50,000 beds in COVID-19 Care Centre (CCC)-2 for mild symptomatic patients. Out of the 21,000 beds, as of March 26, 5,140 are vacant.
According to the data, the active cases in the city has increased from 9,690 cases until March 1 to 33,961 until March 24, recording a surge of 250 per cent since the coronavirus outbreak.
In Mumbai, 47,000 corona tests were performed on Wednesday, March 24. Of which 5,365 patients were infected with the virus. Out of these 5,365, only 12 per cent had any symptoms related to coronavirus and the remaining 84 per cent were asymptomatic.
IS Chahal added that keeping the adequate health infrastructure and extremely low mortality rate in mind, there is absolutely no cause for panic or worry in the city of Mumbai. BMC is in full control of the situation and confident of controlling the pandemic in due course of time.
Besides, one million people in Mumbai have been vaccinated. It is said that the vaccination will be increased in the coming days and nearly 1 lakh people will be vaccinated in a day.
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