While Mumbai's daily count of fresh COVID-19 cases and fatalities due to the disease have been on a steady decline over the past couple of weeks, the city continues to report the highest number of deaths in the state. Experts, including members of the COVID task force, attribute the reason to delay in seeking treatment as they have found that many patients self-medicate before approaching a hospital. 

In the first week of October, the city was reporting more than 2,000 fresh cases daily and the numbers continued to dip until the daily count dropped below 1,000 by the end of the month. Similarly, after reporting 40-50 deaths per day for a while, over the past one week, the number has dropped to around 25. Barring Pune, all the other districts in the state, however, report around or less than 10 deaths daily.