India's Mumbai crosses 100-mark of COVID-19 cases

Source: Xinhua| 2020-03-28 22:04:36|Editor: xuxin
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MUMBAI, March 28 (Xinhua) -- India's financial capital Mumbai has crossed the 100-mark of COVID-19 cases with 22 confirmed cases reported on Saturday, taking the total tally in the city to 102, according to a statement by the city's civic authority.

Of the 22 new cases, 15 cases are residents of Mumbai city while the remaining are from outside the city.

Mumbai, the political capital of India's western state of Maharashtra, has so far reported six deaths due to the virus, of which four are residents of the city while two were from the outside the city limits, as per the statement. So far, the Maharashtra state has 155 active cases of the virus including Mumbai's.

The city civic body has also started a 35-bed isolation center at its civic hospital and another 250-bed isolation center in the city to address the rising number of patients.

As per the Indian government official update on Saturday, there are 909 active coronavirus cases including 47 foreign nationals, of which 80 cases have been discharged after treatment.

India has so far reported 19 casualties so far as the country entered the fourth day of the 21-day lockdown across the country to counter the pandemic.

Anticipating the crisis to grow multi-fold, Indian Railways have turned the non-air-conditioned train coaches as an isolation ward for treating coronavirus patients by unveiling a prototype of a non-AC train coach-turned-coronavirus isolation ward on Saturday.

Similarly, the state-owned power generating company NTPC had made isolation facilities across its 25 health units in the country to handle COVID-19 cases.

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