Mumbai: For the first time since the Covid pandemic struck, Mumbai registered a single-digit caseload in a day on Saturday. The city registered eight covid 19 cases which is the least case in a day in the last 32 months since the pandemic struck the globe. The city has been registering double-digit cases in the past month.
Meanwhile, there has been a rise in cases of measles in the city mainly among
children. BMC is planning to open a special children's ward for measles in a civic-run maternity hospital in Govandi area of the Eastern part of Mumbai where the cases are predominant. A special vaccination drive has also been launched in civic-run hospitals of Central and eastern Mumbai in which 800 children are planned to be vaccinated.