After what is billed as a major triumph in the 90-day war against the novel coronavirus in Dharavi, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has slowly started a cautious retreat from Asia's biggest slum which reported its first Covid-19 case-cum-death on April 1.

"We have closed two isolation facilities in Dharavi as cases have significantly reduced there and we don't want to waste resources. Of the total 3,800-beds capacity in eight quarantine centres, we have reduced the numbers by 1,000 to touch around 2,800 beds," G/North Assistant Municipal Commissioner Kiran Dighavkar told IANS.