Mumbai: In another sign that the second covid wave in Mumbai has subsided, the number of closed buildings has dropped by almost 98% in the past four months.
Only 21 buildings were sealed across the city today, a big decline of 970 on April 12.
“Mumbai is at receding the lowest pandemic at this time,” said Dr Shashank Joshi, a member of the State Task Force in Covid.
Tally daily throughout the city has been less than 300 for about a week now and the daily toll road has also dropped below 10.
BMC sealed a building if five or more positive occupant tests for Covid-19.
If there are less than five cases in a building, the floor where patients live corrected.
The number of floors closed touched 10,983 in the second week of April, but now it has dropped to 1,116.
On Saturday, for the first time since the pandemic began in March 2020, the city did not have a detention zone — slum bags or solid areas grouped because of many cases.
During the peak of the second wave in April, the city has 2,800 detention zones.
BMC will calculate the solid area to limit the movement of vehicles in and out of these areas.
The additional Commissioner BMC Suresh Kakani gets the covid trend of the city analyzed and found new cases especially emerging from the building and no case clusters in any part of the city.
However, Joshi suggested carefully.
“We have just started to unlock and if people don’t follow the behavior that matches Covid and make themselves vaccinated, we can see other disasters,” he added.
Abhishek Ghosalkar, former Shiv Sena Corporator from Dahecar, said the second wave barely touched a slum bag.
For example, Dahisar’s Ganpat Patil Nagar, one of the biggest slum bags with a population up to 60,000, reported very few cases not like in the first wave when it was a hotspot.
The BMC sealed slums in May when the case rose to 12.
“BMC officials adopted an aggressive strategy of screening locals which resulted in people without symptoms diagnosed.
This helps control the spread of infection in the Dumecious Cluster,” said Ghosalkar.
In Goregaon, BJP Corporator Srikala Pillai, whose nice has slum like Bhagat Singh Nagar 1 & 2, Laxmi Nagar and Indira Nagar, said the first wave was loud on Slumdweller, who had to step up to keep the house fire burning.
Nehal Shah, a BJP canporator from Matunga-Sion, said the residents of the slum had developed a herd of flocks when the second wave hit.
“There are concerns from the third wave may hit us again, but the government can avoid this by ensuring that those in the slums at least take a dose of vaccines,” Shah said.