Mumbai’s Covid-19 death rate or case fatality rate , while showing marginal decline, remains firmly above the state and national death rate...
Mumbai’s Covid-19 death rate or case fatality rate, while showing marginal decline, remains firmly above the state and national death rates. On October 1, the city’s case fatality rate stood at 4.1%, even as the rate for the state was at 2.64% and the national figure was 1.53%. Among the reasons cited for the high death rate are late hospitalisation and a reluctance to get tested even though testing norms were eased in July to allow anybody to get tested without prescription.
To address this, Mumbai’s civic body, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, on the advice of the state Covid task force, has begun door to door screening of all residents for fever, oxygen levels and co-morbidities.
Scroll.in asked Dr Sanjay Oak, chief of the Maharashtra Covid task force what he thought were the reasons for the high mortality rate and how the state has adapted new data and information while formulating treatment plans and non-medical interventions.
What have been the reasons for Mumbai’s high death rate?
Mumbai’s death rate is coming down as you can ascertain by the latest figures.
Even so, the death rate in Mumbai continues to be higher than the death rate at the national level. What is the analysis of the task force?
The reasons for the high death rate in Mumbai are:
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