Summary:
The 15 days of October have seen a sharp spike in the number of H1N1 cases in the city. It reveals that 14 H1N1 cases were reported thus far in the year 2018, of which one was in September and 13 in October. "Since the few weeks, we have been getting very few suspected cases of H1N1, of which some have been confirmed and some others not. While the month of September saw just one case of H1N1 registered in the city, also the first H1N1 case registered in Mumbai in 2018, October has already seen 13 cases. As per the BMC's epidemiology cell, the year 2017 saw 995 cases and 18 deaths, while 2016 saw only three cases..