MUMBAI: 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.
While deaths under most of the dozen heads separately mentioned dropped, three saw higher fatalities compared to previous years—kidney failure, malaria and typhoid.
