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Health worker examines a woman in the Dharavi area of Mumbai
MUMBAI: a new Covid-19 dimension deployed in Dharavi on Friday as BMC officials On routine calls to recovered patients, they discovered that five of them had died since discharge. The victims had completed their 14-day hospitalization more than a month ago. The death toll in Dharavi, the city’s hardest hit slum with 808 positive cases, after adding 25 new patients on Friday, is now 26. BMC officials declined to comment on the possibility of reinfection and said that they would study the deaths.
The families of two of the recovered patients had received death certificates from private doctors who listed Covid-19 as the cause of death. “We need to make sure that graduates are continuously followed,” said an official.
Reinfection among recovered patients is being studied in South Korea and China, and studies in New York have shown that a small percentage of patients had required a new hospital stay due to the return of symptoms.
“These five were admitted to the hospital after they tested positive,” said a local civic official. “We have now been following up on all the patients who tested positive and were discharged since the first case was reported on April 1.” [in Dharavi] when we discovered that five had died. We have asked his relatives to provide us with the death certificate. ”
Authorities said they were finding out if the cremation protocol had been followed, such as wrapping the body in special plastic sheeting.
A core team that visited Dharavi on Wednesday had asked the BMC to ensure that high-risk contacts were isolated and quarantine facilities increased. The new municipal commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal, will visit Dharavi on Saturday.
Of the 25 new cases, the maximum number came from the Matunga Forced Labor Camp. The other new cases were from Kunchi Kurve Nagar, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Fatima Chawl, KM Chawl, Madina Compound, Muslim Nagar and New Municipal chawl.
The BMC asked all local elected representatives to ask those living in their neighborhoods to be immediately quarantined at the designated center if they had any symptoms of a new coronavirus infection.
A public address van was also maintained in the area dominated by slums, calling on people to visit institutional quarantine centers in case of symptoms.
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