Tally of Dharavi's COVID-19 patients up by 50 to 783

The number of COVID-19 patients in

Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum sprawl, reached 783 with 50 new cases surfacing there on Thursday, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

So far 21 people have died due to the infection in the slum, but no death was reported on Thursday, the official said.

According to the official, the fresh cases were detected in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, 60-feet Road, transit camp, 90-feet Road, Matunga Labour camp, Kumbharwada,Indira Nagar, Kala Kills and some other localities of Dharavi.

On Wednesday, 68 persons had tested positive and one person had died due to the infection, the BMC official said.

Kiran Dighavkar, assistant commissioner of BMC's G- North ward, requested all public representatives and local NGOs to appeal to the residents of Dharavi to immediately contact the quarantine facility at Dharavi municipal school, if any symptoms of coronavirus were found in them.

Dharavi, believed to be the biggest slum in India,