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Mumbai: Dharavi logs 6 new corona infections, active cases 101

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: September 8, 2020 19:03 IST

The tally of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi increased to 2,830 on Tuesday with 6 more ...

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The tally of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi increased to 2,830 on Tuesday with 6 more persons testing positive for the infection, the city civic body said.

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officer said 2,459 COVID-19 patients from Dharavi have already recovered and discharged from hospitals.

He said the number of active cases in Dharavi rose to 101.

It is after a gap of more than a month that the number of active cases in the slum-dominated area has crossed the 100-mark, the officer said.

Dharavi, spread over 2.5 lakh square kilometres, has a population of more than 6.5 lakh.

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