Even after efforts made by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Mumbai police in tracing missing COVID-19 patients, many of them from a number of administrative wards in the city still remain untraceable. Hence, civic officials have now decided to reach out to private labs for additional information on these patients so that they, and all those who have come in contact with them, can be traced.

According to civic officials, many of these patients had given incorrect addresses and phone numbers during tests, as they were not from Mumbai. Until last month, in P North ward there were 70 patients who could not be found and the civic body had reached out to the police for help in looking for them using call data records.