MUMBAI: Eight foreign travelers, 77 hospital staff, 32 hospital visitors-patients, five family members of the hospital staff, 19 those included into emergency services (driver and hotel staff), 11 police-RPF security personal, and 163 those came in contact of earlier; it’s a profiling of 319 (including 4 false positive) Covid-19 positive cases found in city's most high profile D-ward, that house chief minister, governor and several top industrialist along with business tycoons.
The ward includes area of Walkeshwar, Malabar Hill, Nepean Sea Road, Pedder Road, Nana Chowk with 3.56 lakh population -- 3.1 lakh live buildings, chawl-buildings and 56,000 in slums. The ward houses, seven major hospitals and 109 positive cases have connection with these hospitals, most of them with Bhatia Hospital and Jaslok Hospital.
Among the total positive cases, 44 are diabetic, 28 hypertension, 12 have asthma, 12 chronic kidney disease and 5 are cancer patients.
The civic staff also traced 7 index cases in the ward which included a hotel cashier, a driver, a grocery store owner, and a hospital patient through whom coronavirus spread to 68 of their family members, friends and neighbours. The BMC prepared a report based on the cases reported to them till April 29.
Officials stated that the index cases helped them to understand that despite of the lockdown, people visiting their neighbours and meeting friends without taking due precautions.
For instance, when a person in an old building was found positive, BMC decided to check others in the standalone building housing lower middle class population. They found 12 more positive cases in the building. While inquiring further, they came to know that one of them, a cashier in hotel, was visiting his workplace as they were into online delivery. BMC also learnt that although other building residents didn't step out, but they were visiting each others' houses and meeting neighbours without taking due precautions (without mask and not washing their hands frequently).
Assistant municipal commissioner (D-Ward) Prashant Gaikwad said, “The analysis of the data helped us to understand that there is no community transmission. Many of the positive cases have connection with hospitals and many others contacted the virus while visiting-meeting their neighbours-friend in the same premises.”
The BMC report shows that the ward was in its peak in third week of April, when it was second highest in total number of positive cases after G-South (Worli) ward, in the city. Since then, the graph is in downward.
There were 116 containment zones, of which 37 have been removed from the list as no new cases reported from these in last two weeks.
Among the total cases, 242 are under treatment, 55 have been discharged after they cure and 22 died. Among the dead, 12 were between age group of 60 to 79 years, 3 were above 80 years, 6 were between age group of 40 to 59 years and one was between 20 to 39 years.
The ward includes area of Walkeshwar, Malabar Hill, Nepean Sea Road, Pedder Road, Nana Chowk with 3.56 lakh population -- 3.1 lakh live buildings, chawl-buildings and 56,000 in slums. The ward houses, seven major hospitals and 109 positive cases have connection with these hospitals, most of them with Bhatia Hospital and Jaslok Hospital.
Among the total positive cases, 44 are diabetic, 28 hypertension, 12 have asthma, 12 chronic kidney disease and 5 are cancer patients.
The civic staff also traced 7 index cases in the ward which included a hotel cashier, a driver, a grocery store owner, and a hospital patient through whom coronavirus spread to 68 of their family members, friends and neighbours. The BMC prepared a report based on the cases reported to them till April 29.
Officials stated that the index cases helped them to understand that despite of the lockdown, people visiting their neighbours and meeting friends without taking due precautions.
For instance, when a person in an old building was found positive, BMC decided to check others in the standalone building housing lower middle class population. They found 12 more positive cases in the building. While inquiring further, they came to know that one of them, a cashier in hotel, was visiting his workplace as they were into online delivery. BMC also learnt that although other building residents didn't step out, but they were visiting each others' houses and meeting neighbours without taking due precautions (without mask and not washing their hands frequently).
Assistant municipal commissioner (D-Ward) Prashant Gaikwad said, “The analysis of the data helped us to understand that there is no community transmission. Many of the positive cases have connection with hospitals and many others contacted the virus while visiting-meeting their neighbours-friend in the same premises.”
The BMC report shows that the ward was in its peak in third week of April, when it was second highest in total number of positive cases after G-South (Worli) ward, in the city. Since then, the graph is in downward.
There were 116 containment zones, of which 37 have been removed from the list as no new cases reported from these in last two weeks.
Among the total cases, 242 are under treatment, 55 have been discharged after they cure and 22 died. Among the dead, 12 were between age group of 60 to 79 years, 3 were above 80 years, 6 were between age group of 40 to 59 years and one was between 20 to 39 years.
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