More than 1,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai are untraceable.

Covid-19 positive patients are missing or untraceable in Mumbai. The exact figure on the number of people untraceable is unknown.

Covid-19 positive patients are missing or untraceable in Mumbai. The exact figure on the number of people untraceable is unknown.The Covid-19 data collected by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) shows that hundreds of coronavirus positive patients are currently missing in Mumbai. These patients are neither admitted to hospitals or COVID-19 care centers nor are they dead. In many cases, their contact numbers or addresses on the record are incorrect.

When a person tests positive, the lab uploads results directly to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) portal, based on which the BMC updates its data. The civic epidemiology cell then alerts the wards concerned. Since most cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic in Mumbai, those patients are advised to be home quarantined. Currently, three lakh people are in-home quarantine. However, many such patients are not traceable.

The data of untraceable patients has not been made public. Hence it is difficult to give the accurate number of patients currently missing or untraceable in Mumbai.

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