Mumbai: The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has devised a strategy to break the chain of Coronavirus spread, which has resulted into scores of deaths. Mumbai is now known as the hotbed of COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy will focus on isolating at least 15 high risk persons who have come in contact of a positive patient and they will be government quarantined. Over 1000 thousand deaths have been reported in Mumbai due to coronavirus.
Speaking to newspersons, BMC Municipal Commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal said that what the BMC has decided to do is to chase the virus and get on top of it. The strategy, he said has been devised on the advice of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to break the chain of COVID-19.
Chahal said that even if the toll of COVID-19 patients has surpassed 31,000 mark and the active cases are about 22,000 in Mumbai at present. He said, 17,000 patients have been cured and discharged from hospitals. The Mumbai civic body has tested 13,000 people per one million population and so far 1.75 lakh persons have been tested in the metropolis.
The commissioner also said that Mumbai has a robust health care system and one lakh beds will be made available by the municipal corporation in upcoming days. As of now, he said the civic body has 75,000 beds to treat that many patients. Anticipating more cases of COVID-19 in days to come the civic body has also signed a MoU with UBER to ferry patients to the hospitals for the next two months.
Apart from this, responding to the call of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray around 3,700 doctors, nurses and paramedical professionals from various parts of the state have shown their willingness to work as COVID Yodha. Out of this, 570 health professionals have given their choice for Mumbai, he said.
