India
oi-Deepika S
Mumbai, Apr 01: Mumbai city reported 88,710 coronavirus cases in March this year, nearly 475 per cent more than the previous month’s infection count, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data has revealed.
The city had reported 18,359 COVID-19 cases in February and 16,328 in January this year.
It means that there were 70,351 more cases in Mumbai in March as compared to the previous month and 72,382 more cases as compared to the tally in January.
As per the data, the virus claimed 216 lives in the financial capital of the country in March, a rise of around 181 per cent as compared to the death toll of 119 in February.
A total of 237 deaths were reported in the first month of this year.
On March 31, the COVID-19 caseload of the metropolis touched 4,14,714, while the death toll reached 11,686.
The BMC data showed that there were 51,411 active cases of…