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Photos: Mumbai’s BMC charts new strategy as Covid-19 curve plateaus

As the Covid-19 curve flattens in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from August 17 will be narrowing down its focus on 10 administrative wards, which have 46% of Mumbai's infections. The 10 wards will be BMC’s focus areas in order to increase both RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests in slums and residential buildings. Mumbai's current Covid-19 tally stands at 128,726.

Updated on: Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM IST

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A view of Teen Batti market area in Bhiwandi, Mumbai on August 16. With Covid-19 cases plateauing across Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has narrowed down its focus on 10 administrative wards, which have 46% of Mumbai’s infections, HT reported. The targeted wards have been selected on the basis of Covid-19 cases growth rate, doubling rate, positivity rate and fatality rate. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

A view of Teen Batti market area in Bhiwandi, Mumbai on August 16. With Covid-19 cases plateauing across Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has narrowed down its focus on 10 administrative wards, which have 46% of Mumbai’s infections, HT reported. The targeted wards have been selected on the basis of Covid-19 cases growth rate, doubling rate, positivity rate and fatality rate. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo)

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A health care worker thermal screens a woman during a door-to-door screening exercise at Sathe Nagar in Mumbai on August 16. The wards zeroed on are R North (Dahisar), R South (Kandivli), R Central (Borivli), S (Bhandup), N (Ghatkopar), T (Mulund), G North (Dadar-Mahim), M East (Govandi), P North (Malad) and L (Kurla). (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

A health care worker thermal screens a woman during a door-to-door screening exercise at Sathe Nagar in Mumbai on August 16. The wards zeroed on are R North (Dahisar), R South (Kandivli), R Central (Borivli), S (Bhandup), N (Ghatkopar), T (Mulund), G North (Dadar-Mahim), M East (Govandi), P North (Malad) and L (Kurla). (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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A health worker chemically disinfects a bench at Manpada testing centre in Thane, Mumbai on August 14. This new BMC strategy comes after the civic body had implemented ‘Mission Zero’, a rapid action plan to bring down Covid-19 infections in Mumbai’s six wards--Mulund, Bhandup, Dahisar, Borivli, Kandivli and Malad. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo )

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

A health worker chemically disinfects a bench at Manpada testing centre in Thane, Mumbai on August 14. This new BMC strategy comes after the civic body had implemented ‘Mission Zero’, a rapid action plan to bring down Covid-19 infections in Mumbai’s six wards--Mulund, Bhandup, Dahisar, Borivli, Kandivli and Malad. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo )

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A Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) health worker tests a swap sample for Covid-19 infection at Ghansoli Village in Navi Mumbai on August 13. ‘Mission Zero’ was a 35-day action plan introduced on June 22 to increase surveillance in areas, specifically six administrative wards that had a high case growth rate and, bring down the number of daily infections reported in these areas, HT reported. (Bachchan Kumar / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

A Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) health worker tests a swap sample for Covid-19 infection at Ghansoli Village in Navi Mumbai on August 13. ‘Mission Zero’ was a 35-day action plan introduced on June 22 to increase surveillance in areas, specifically six administrative wards that had a high case growth rate and, bring down the number of daily infections reported in these areas, HT reported. (Bachchan Kumar / HT Photo)

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A health worker collects a swab sample from a resident of Omkar SRA at Malad(E) in Mumbai on August 16. A senior civic official told HT that the number of fever clinics will also be increased in the 10 new administrative wards. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

A health worker collects a swab sample from a resident of Omkar SRA at Malad(E) in Mumbai on August 16. A senior civic official told HT that the number of fever clinics will also be increased in the 10 new administrative wards. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT Photo)

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A view of Jambali Naka market in Thane, Mumbai on August 15. Mumbai on August 16, reported 1,010 new Covid-19 cases, taking up the city’s tally of infections to 128,726 and 47 deaths, pushing up the virus death toll to 7,133. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo )

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

A view of Jambali Naka market in Thane, Mumbai on August 15. Mumbai on August 16, reported 1,010 new Covid-19 cases, taking up the city’s tally of infections to 128,726 and 47 deaths, pushing up the virus death toll to 7,133. (Praful Gangurde / HT Photo )

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BMC head office and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus illuminated on the eve of Independence Day in Mumbai on August 14. There are 17,825 active cases in the city. The case fatality rate doe Mumbai is 5.5%, and recovery rate is 80%. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 11:04 AM

BMC head office and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus illuminated on the eve of Independence Day in Mumbai on August 14. There are 17,825 active cases in the city. The case fatality rate doe Mumbai is 5.5%, and recovery rate is 80%. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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