Mumbai's COVID-19 death rate lower than Maha's: BMC
The team also found that the doubling rate ofcoronavirus cases in this megapolis is lower than what isregistered by the state and the country, the civic body said.
In a release, the BMC said that the doubling rate ofcoronavirus positive cases in the city has increased to 10days from 8.3 days between April 11 and 27, and the mortalityrate of patients declined to 3.9 per cent from 6.3 per cent inthe same period.
Claiming that the central team praised the efforts ofthe civic body in containing the spread of the virus, the BMCrelease said that the doubling rate in the country is 9.5days, while the same on the state level is 8.9 days, whereasthe mortality rate in the state is 4.3 per cent.
The central team concluded that the mortality rate ofCOVID-19 patients in Mumbai is less than the state's averageand the doubling rate is less than that of the state and thecountry, the BMC said.
The central team, led by Manoj Joshi, AdditionalSecretary in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, hadlast week visited the state, including Mumbai, to monitor thetesting efforts, management of lockdown and supply chainissues in the state.
The first coronavirus positive case was found inMumbai on March 11 and the number of such cases in the cityhas now crossed the 6,000-mark.
The BMC claimed that it is taking all possible effortsto contain the spread of the disease and till April 26, it hassearched 1,29,477 contacts including 21,053 high risk contactsof the positive patients since the first patient was found inthe city.
The corporation said that the contact tracking helpedit to find 1,647 coronavirus positive cases.
According to BMC release, the city also tops in thenumber of tests done to find out coronavirus positive cases.
The BMC has conducted 66,000 tests, which calculatesto 5,071 tests per lakh population, while in Tamil Nadu,Rajasthan, New Delhi and Kerala states conducted 2624, 1220,794 and 684 tests per lakh population respectively, it said. KKNP NP