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Mumbai's Dharavi doesn't report any fresh Coronavirus case for 2nd consecutive day

Mumbai's Dharavi, considered to be Asia's largest slum, did not report any fresh coronavirus case for the second day in a row today. On Monday, for the first time since February 2, no new case was detected in the Dharavi area. Dharavi had reported the highest-ever 99 COVID-19 cases on 8th April, 2021 during the second wave of the pandemic. <br />''<br />''AIR Correspondent reports, good news poured in for Mumbai's Dharavi, as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) today informed that city's slum-colony did not report any fresh Coronavirus case for the second day in a row today. With this Dharavi's COVID-19 caseload remains unchanged at 6861, of which 6,491 patients have already recovered and discharged from hospitals. <br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">According to a BMC official, the number of active cases in the densely populated locality went down to 11 after two more patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Health experts and government officials had raised concerns about the rising COVID-19 cases in the slum-dominated area at the start of the second wave in mid-February. However, since May, cases in the Dharavi area gradually declined and it has witnessed COVID-19 infections in single digit three times so far this month. </span><br />

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