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Dharavi: Five more test COVID-19 positive; total tally at 60 in slum area

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: April 15, 2020 11:01 IST

Five more persons tested positive to coronavirus in Dharavi, taking the total number of such cases in Mumbai's biggest ...

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Five more persons tested positive to coronavirus in Dharavi, taking the total number of such cases in Mumbai's biggest slum area to 60, a senior civic official said on Wednesday.

All the new patients - three males and two females - are from the Mukund Nagar locality of Dharavi.

"Contact-tracing of high risk contacts of new patients is under progress," the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said.

So far, seven COVID-19 patients from Dharavi have died.

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