Buffeted by covid-19 headwinds and its resources looking alarmingly thin, the Maharashtra government has so far taken over around 100 buildings from various developers in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region equalling 400,000-500,000 sq.
ft for use as quarantine units. Maharashtra began fast-tracking the task of setting up covid care facilities from the onset of the crisis.
But densely populated Mumbai, home to the highest number of cases in the country, has made the fightback difficult, and infections and deaths have far outpaced critical care facilities.
Mumbai accounts for more than 62%, or 33,835, of covid cases in Maharashtra. So far the state has seen 54,758 patients, 16,954 of whom have made full recovery, leaving 36,004 active patients.