Maharashtra's COVID-19 deaths rocket from 1 to 1,135 in 60 days

It was on March 17 that Maharashtra notched the first Covid19 death of a 64year old man who died at the Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai sounding the first alarm for the state health authorities Exactly 60 days later the state death toll has zoomed from 1 to 1135 or a rough average of 19 deaths per dayIn Mumbai since the first death the figure of fatalities has touched 696 or an average of around 11 deaths per day In terms of the spread the state has shot up from only 2 cases on March 9 to 30706 today a staggering average of 438 cases per day in the past 70 daysBarely 72 hours before the first death on March 17 the state had invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 March 13 and the next day framed The Maharashtra Covid19 Regulations 2020 March 14 The following day March 15 onwards the state had already lapsed into a partial precautionary lockdown confident of grabbing the invisible Coronavirus by the horns followed by ongoing extensions to reach Lockdown 40 todayBy March 31 during lockdown first phase the state recorded 10 deaths 302 patients and Mumbai 7 deaths 151 patients Till the second lockdown by April 15 the state notched 187 deaths with 2916 cases and Mumbai had 114 deaths and 1896 patientsAs the third lockdown was on by April 30 the state recorded 459 deaths with 10498 patients and Mumbai had 290 deaths and 7061 cases including around a dozen police personnel to dateThere are also some silver streaks 7088 patients recovered fully and went home while the states death rate which at one point ranked the highest in the world has now come down to nearly half the global averages and closer to the national averageOn May 1 Covid19 had spread its deadly tentacles to all 36 districts in the state and by May 17 Mumbai had already become the countrys Corona capital with 696 deaths and 18555 cases besides Maharashtras 1135 fatalities and 30706 patientsBesides Mumbai the other worsthit are Pune Division with 212 deaths 4149 cases Nashik Division with 78 fatalities 1256 cases ThaneRaigad with 72 deaths 4638 casesNext are Akola Division with 28 fatalities 466 cases Aurangabad Division with 26 deaths 966 cases Kolhapur Division with 5 fatalities 173 cases Latur Division with 5 deaths 101 cases and Nagpur Division 3 fatalities and 361 casesIn the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation BMC jurisdiction the worsthit is Asias biggest slum Dharavi and surroundings of Dadar and Mahim GNorth Ward with the largest chunk of over 1300 casesThen it is the WorliPrabhadevi area GSouth Ward with over 1200 cases Byculla and vicinity E Ward with more 1100 cases Andheri West KWest Ward with over 1000 and WadalaAntop HillMatunga FNorth Ward with more than 1000 casesThe spiraling cases and increasing deaths sparked panic especially among the migrants estimated around a million in Mumbai and suburbs with many choosing to flee the city to safer environs in their home states Gujarat Rajasthan Haryana Uttar Pradesh Bihar West Bengal Jharkhand Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh Telangana and KarnatakaThe state government BMC along with the private sector is in a race to keep pace with the growing casualties by taking over every available space to be used as quarantine facilitiesAt least 4 huge Wuhantype hospitals are springing up in Goregaons NESCO Bandra Kurla Complex the National Sports Club of India and Wankhede Stadium and another nearly 200 facilities created in various locations for coronavirus patientsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever