Maharashtra: Elected representatives want clarity on Panvel civic body's impressive Covid-19 recovery percentage

NAVI MUMBAI: Elected representatives cutting across party lines are not comfortable with the functioing of Panvel civic body and it's claim of 78.70 % or 79% Covid-19 recovery. BJP Panvel MLA, Prashant Thakur---the ruling party in Panvel civic body--wanted to know the measures taken by the civic administration to correlate the figures, while Arvind Mhatre, a corporator of peasants and workers party from Taloja MIDC (in the opposition) and a social activist wants more swab and antibody tests in the villages in his area.
The numbers of positive cases are increasing and more tests need to be done to ensure the spread is tackled effectively, he asserted." The good recovery figures raise questions too, he said.
Civic commissioner, Sudhakar Deshmukh said, "the increase in recovery percentage is because daily cases have slowed down compared to the 200 mark, and strict monitoring of private hospitals with penalty provisions on account of complaints they were charging more by retaining patients has led to good results."
The MLA, Prashant Thakur said, "the civic administration should let us know why certain areas have high recovery and another has low recovery as also what led to higher recovery."
New Panvel trails the five nodes (under the civic body) at 67.80% , while Panvel (the old township) tops with 94.94%.
Taloja too has a high of 83.04% but Arvind said, "cases in Navda village have risen from 42 to 67 in about one month.Door-to -door swab tests need to be done . Many who work in Taloja industries are tenants in the villages. There are several villages in my constituency."