The city saw more than 1,500 deaths from April 14 to May 6. Compared to the first half of April, the average deaths almost doubled, as the first half saw 31 deaths daily on an average. BJP MLA Ameet Satam said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) should devise a focused plan to curtail deaths instead of boasting about their work.

According to the BMC’s data, the total number of deaths recorded from April 1 to April 13 were 402. However, from April 14 to May 6 the number of deaths recorded are 1,532, an average of about 67 deaths daily.