Mumbai Covid deaths topped cancer, heart attack in 2020

Covid displaced usual chart-toppers heart attack and cancer to become the leading cause of death in the city in 2020. Out of 1.1 lakh total deaths recorded in the first year of the pandemic, 11,105 (10%) were Covid fatalities, 8,576 (7.6%) were cancer deaths and 5,633 (5%) were heart attacks, according to recent data accessed through RTI.

from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FFGMHK