Mumbai lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 14, 2020, 14:53 IST

View of Worli Koliwada amid lockdown (ANI photo)

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* Update at 2.52pm: The ministry has set up 20 control rooms to address wage-related grievances of workers and other issues, says ministry of labour and employment
* Update at 2.47pm: Used masks washed, that were ironed and ready to be sold in the market, were seized by Virar police.
* Update at 2.25pm: Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh visits Worli Koliwada and urges locals to stay at home to contain spread of coronavirus. (PTI)
* Update at 1.57pm: Three Covid-19 patients cured; discharged from Mumbai hospital (PTI)
In a release issued on Tuesday, the hospital said a 42-year-old woman, her 69-year-old mother and 15-year-old son were admitted to its facility on March 29, after they tested positive for coronavirus.
* Update at 1.22pm: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said an expert committee formed to suggest ways to tackle the coronavirus crisis and to bring the state's economy back on track will submit its report to the government by April 30. (PTI)
* Update at 12.48pm: Among the new cases that were reported on Tuesday, 92 were from Mumbai, 13 from Navi Mumbai, 10 from Thane city, five from Vasai-Virar (in Palghar district) and one from Raigad. (PTI)
* Update at 12.18pm: Ensure proper lockdown but see to it that no one faces problem, home minister Amit Shah tells state governments
* Update at 12.12pm: 121 new coronavirus cases in Maharashtra; state tally surges to 2,455, reports PTI quoting health official
*HCQS for 50,000 in Dharavi from today, Worli next in line
* Update at 11.18am: Railways to extend suspension of passenger services till May 3, reports PTI quoting senior official
* Update at 11.02am: Police have deployed drones for surveillance in Covid-19 hotspot areas of Dharavi and Worli, reports ANI

* Update at 10.46am: Six test positive for Covid-19 in Mumbai's Dharavi, total cases rise to 55 in the area
* Update at 10.13am: Lockdown will be extended across India till May 3: PM Narendra Modi
* Update at 9.15am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 339; cases climb to 10,363, reports PTI quoting health ministry official
*Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address nation at 10am today
* Update at 7.43am: Mumbai's Worli Koliwada declared a Covid-19 containment zone, movement of people restricted (ANI)

* Update at 4.12am: MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) grounds in Bandra-Kurla Complex converted into a wholesale market that operates from 10pm to 6am, reports ANI.

MMRDA grounds in Bandra-Kurla Complex converted into a wholesale market (Photo: ANI)

*Covid-19 fatality rate dips in Mumbai
*BEST AC mini buses now deliver food to poor
*Plasma transfusions to begin in Mumbai today
*APMC veggie market all set to reopen on Wednesday
*The death toll in Dharavi rose to five on Monday, with swabs of a 60-year-old who died in Sion Hospital testing positive. The case count touched 49, with six more found infected, including a Dadar hospital nurse and a south Mumbai hospital ward boy.