It is Mumbai all the way as the city’s decentralised model of battling Covid has earned praise pan-India. Some of the outstanding facets of this model are that there are decentralised control rooms at the ward level.

There is considerable citizen engagement and tele counselling, once again at the ward level, and there is also a centralised dashboard for hospital beds and makeshift ambulances. It is a model that needs replication, say experts as numbers bear out the most important aspect, that it is working.