MUMBAI : The slum-dominated Dharavi area in Mumbai recorded 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest daily rise since October, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Of these, 3,699 patients have already recovered while there are 51 active cases. Earlier, on October 23 last year, Dharavi had reported 18 new cases and since then, barring a few days, the number of new cases had been in single digit. On some days the area did not record a single new case. "We are aggressively testing as many people as possible to curb the spread, so the number has risen," the BMC official said.

Source: Mint February 26, 2021 14:26 UTC