Though the mortality rate itself came down in the second wave, total deaths in city stayed as high as it was at the peak of the first wave
Pic/Satej Shinde
As the second wave of novel Coronavirus walloped Mumbai in the past few months, April saw its deadliest face. In just 28 days of this month, 1,208 people succumbed to the contagious disease, official numbers show. The casualties in April, the highest so far this year, are as high as they were at the peak of the first wave between May and October last year. The fourth day of this month reported a staggering 11,163 infections
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The city got the false sense of the pandemic waning after daily cases began falling from November 2020. The slide continued till February this year, only to head north once again. Daily infections in the first week of that month hovered around 400. The numbers jumped from 558 to 1,051 from February 10 to February 28.
A COVID awareness drive underway at Dharavi. Pic/Shadab Khan
The single-day count rose to 5,394 at the end of March and hit an all-time record of April 4.
While the city’s mortality rate has remained more or less constant, the sheer number of cases pushed up fatalities in April.
A COVID centre is being set up at P J Hindu Gymkhana on Tuesday. Pic/Ashish Raje
There were about 16,000 and over 200 deaths in the first month of this year. It became 17,000 infections and 115 fatalities by February end. March witnessed over 90,000 cases before April turned into a full-blown crisis with over 2.17 lakh cases till Thursday.
“The number of cases is almost four-fold in the second wave and hence fatalities are high, though the mortality rate is much lower. Even the symptoms are somewhat different from the first wave. Lung infection is the most common issue which was not in the first wave,” said Dr. Rahul Pandit, a member of state’s COVID Task Force.
11,163
No. of cases on April 4
Apr 4
Day when the city saw highest-ever daily cases
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