Mumbai civic body on alert as COVID-19 cases rise in city

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on June 1 asked civic officials to ramp up coronavirus testing immediately on a war footing and keep the staff of jumbo field hospitals on alert in the wake of a "tremendous" rise in fresh COVID-19 cases in the city over the past few weeks.
The new cases (reported) daily have tremendously gone up in Mumbai, and with monsoon around the corner, we will now see a rapid rise in symptomatic cases," Mr. Chahal told BMC officials. Since the beginning of May, the COVID-19 cases in the metropolis have been steadily going up. The number of new cases reported on Tuesday crossed the 500-mark for the first time after February 6.