COVID-19 situation under control, says BMC
The Hindu
‘Gradual decline in the number of cases in Mumbai, no reason for panic’
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday assured the Bombay High Court that the current COVID-19 situation in the city was “under control and there was no reason for citizens to panic.”
Senior counsel Anil Sakhre representing the civic body informed a division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M.S. Karnik that Mumbai was witnessing a decline in the number of COVID-19 cases in the third wave of the pandemic.
He said, “As per the data available till January 15, there were 84,352 active cases in the city, of which only 7% patients needed hospitalisation, 3% needed oxygen support and 0.7% required ventilator support.”
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