Death toll 233 in Mumbai and Thane

With 91 more deaths in the metropolis and Thane district since last night, the death toll due to leptospirosis and water-borne diseases has ...

With 91 more deaths in the metropolis and Thane district since last night, the death toll due to leptospirosis and water-borne diseases has risen to 233, Maharashtra directorate of health services sources said today.

A senior health official, however, said there was no further rise in fever cases and that there were signs of the outbreak plateauing out.

‘‘We expect it to decline in a couple of days,’’ he said.

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Mumbai alone accounted for 128 deaths since the July 26 deluge, sources said.

Meanwhile, 958 people were admitted to various hospitals in Mumbai with complaints of fever in the last 24 hours. The cumulative figure since July 27 was 6311, said BMC health official Dr Umesh Aijal. Most were discharged after treatment. A medical team from Delhi and Port Blair had analysed 61 samples from Kalyan, Dombivili and Ulhasnagar, confirming 36 of them as cases of leptospirosis.

‘‘Almost 60 per cent of the cases had shown to be confirmed cases of leptospirosis,’’ said Dr Chander Puri, director, National Institute of Research in Reproductive Health at Parel.

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