For the seventh day on the trot, Panvel saw no COVID deaths on Thursday, bringing huge relief to citizens and civic officials. This is probably the first time a municipal corporation has recorded a week of zero deaths since the pandemic began last year. The Panvel Municipal Corporation has so far seen 619 fatalities.

The coronavirus had hit Panvel badly, forcing it to transfer patients to Navi Mumbai and Mumbai. Cases kept piling up for about six months from March 2020 before heading south. Ganpati and Diwali did cause a slight rise in daily cases but it never reached alarming levels.