The past week’s average of 7,000 to 8,000 cases in the city has been termed by the civic body as numbers stabilising; with this, the doubling rate of the city also improved to 50 days after hitting 33 days around a fortnight ago. The state COVID task force has informed BMC officials that the next eight days will be crucial to understand whether the city has hit a peak and if cases are on the decline. Until then, the civic body must be prepared for the worst. 

Even as the number of sealed slums in the city stands at 114, the number of households in them is 1.24 lakh and the number of people in the areas is 5.66 lakh.
Wards such as L, covering Kurla, and G North, covering Mahim, Dadar and Dharavi have more slums but have managed to keep the growth rate stable in the past week and the doubling rate to 60 days.