As the second wave of novel Coronavirus walloped Mumbai in the past few months, April saw its deadliest face. In just 28 days of this month, 1,208 people succumbed to the contagious disease, official numbers show. The casualties in April, the highest so far this year, are as high as they were at the peak of the first wave between May and October last year. The fourth day of this month reported a staggering 11,163 infections

The city got the false sense of the pandemic waning after daily cases began falling from November 2020. The slide continued till February this year, only to head north once again. Daily infections in the first week of that month hovered around 400. The numbers jumped from 558 to 1,051 from February 10 to February 28.