Mumbai has witnessed a 46 per cent drop in deaths due to Covid in the last 30 days from the number of casualties the month before, revealed data from the civic health department. As per the BMC, the city has witnessed 124 Covid-19 deaths between October 10 to November 9, which further dropped to 67 between November 10 to December 9.  BMC health officials say this is because of the strict measures and vaccination coverage.

Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner (BMC), said, “One of the reasons for the reduced number of Covid-19 deaths is implementation of Mission Save Lives by us in the city. Our main focus has been to reduce the daily numbers and bring the Covid-19 deaths to single digit.” The mortality rate of Covid-19 in the city is still 2.1 per cent.