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 11.15am: In a major relieving news for the people of Kalyan-Dombivli who are worried about the increasing number of coronavirus patients, in the last 24 hours total 39 Covid-19 patients have got discharged from different hospitals. Total discharged patients now are 130 in city out of total 344.
* Update at 10.50am: Around 1,100 people board buses to go back to their homes
* Update at 10.35am:
* ANI update at 10.15am: A group of migrant labourers who undertook a long painstaking journey from Mumbai to reach their native village in Gonda in Madhya Pradesh, are now being forced to spend their quarantine period in an open field.
* Update at 9.00am: Spike of 3604 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours; total positive cases in the country is now at 70756, including 46008 active cases, 22454 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 2293 deaths
* Registration of property may reopen soon
State revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat on Monday told the property registration department to work towards resumption of offices in Pune, Mumbai, Thane and Nagpur after May 17 by ensuring social distancing.
Offices in these cities are closed since the lockdown began in the wake of Covid-19. Pune, Mumbai, Thane and Nagpur have most registrations of real estate projects in the state. Of 519 registration offices in Maharashtra, 272 are operational.
* Delayed isolation of contacts aiding spread in slums?
A majority of Covid-19 cases seen in the past fortnight in Mumbai have been from slum areas, say civic officials and corporators.
TOI had reported on May 6 that 60% of the city’s Covid-19 deaths were from slums. For the past few days BMC has not been putting out ward-wise figures, but BMC officials and elected representatives are clear the situation in several slums across the city is as bad as it is in Dharavi, the huge slum pocket from where daily reports of cases emerge. Cases grow quickly because isolation of contacts is not swift, they state.
* APMC shut, but 400 trucks of veggies, fruit supplied
Even as the APMC market yard in Vashi was shut, regular wholesale traders managed to dispatch hundreds of vehicles loaded with vegetables and fruits to Mumbai and suburban markets on Monday, the first day of the lockdown which will continue till May 17. The five markets at APMC are being sanitized and disinfected after a spate of cases was reported from there.
“There will be no scarcity of essentials in the entire MMR as traders have been told to send vegetables and fruits directly to Mumbai and other suburbs bypassing the APMC. APMC traders on Monday sent over 400 trucks and tempos of vegetables and fruits,” said APMC administrator and secretary Anil Chavan.
* Covid+ve man jumps off hosp, fractures leg
A 45-year-old Covid-positive man allegedly jumped from the third floor of a hospital building in Nalasopara on Saturday. He landed on a heap of sand lying below and has fractured a leg .
The patient, who was “recovering well”, shattered a windowpane of the room he had been allotted and leaped out even as a ward boy noticed him and struggled to pull him in. The man, however, managed to fend off the attempt to save him, a hospital official said, adding that they are unsure why he jumped off.
* Refused room, 3 cause minor blast at hotel
Three youths who hurled a petrol bomb inside a hotel in Dongri on Friday are wnated by the police. The trio — Azim Bhau, Moin Batla and Zeera — went to Hotel Indore Lodging & Boarding wanted to check in, but were refused as they are locals.
* Update at 11.15am: In a major relieving news for the people of Kalyan-Dombivli who are worried about the increasing number of coronavirus patients, in the last 24 hours total 39 Covid-19 patients have got discharged from different hospitals. Total discharged patients now are 130 in city out of total 344.
* Update at 10.50am: Around 1,100 people board buses to go back to their homes
Around 1100 people belonging to #Odisha boarded buses from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, from where they will leave for… https://t.co/OJqMoNCEvF
— TOI Mumbai (@TOIMumbai) 1589260826000* Update at 10.35am:
Two construction workers seen carrying their work tools tied to a stick in order to go back to #Jharkhand. They wer… https://t.co/wZlRFkcBKN
— TOI Mumbai (@TOIMumbai) 1589260036000* ANI update at 10.15am: A group of migrant labourers who undertook a long painstaking journey from Mumbai to reach their native village in Gonda in Madhya Pradesh, are now being forced to spend their quarantine period in an open field.
* Update at 9.00am: Spike of 3604 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours; total positive cases in the country is now at 70756, including 46008 active cases, 22454 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 2293 deaths
* Registration of property may reopen soon
State revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat on Monday told the property registration department to work towards resumption of offices in Pune, Mumbai, Thane and Nagpur after May 17 by ensuring social distancing.
Offices in these cities are closed since the lockdown began in the wake of Covid-19. Pune, Mumbai, Thane and Nagpur have most registrations of real estate projects in the state. Of 519 registration offices in Maharashtra, 272 are operational.
* Delayed isolation of contacts aiding spread in slums?
A majority of Covid-19 cases seen in the past fortnight in Mumbai have been from slum areas, say civic officials and corporators.
TOI had reported on May 6 that 60% of the city’s Covid-19 deaths were from slums. For the past few days BMC has not been putting out ward-wise figures, but BMC officials and elected representatives are clear the situation in several slums across the city is as bad as it is in Dharavi, the huge slum pocket from where daily reports of cases emerge. Cases grow quickly because isolation of contacts is not swift, they state.
* APMC shut, but 400 trucks of veggies, fruit supplied
Even as the APMC market yard in Vashi was shut, regular wholesale traders managed to dispatch hundreds of vehicles loaded with vegetables and fruits to Mumbai and suburban markets on Monday, the first day of the lockdown which will continue till May 17. The five markets at APMC are being sanitized and disinfected after a spate of cases was reported from there.
“There will be no scarcity of essentials in the entire MMR as traders have been told to send vegetables and fruits directly to Mumbai and other suburbs bypassing the APMC. APMC traders on Monday sent over 400 trucks and tempos of vegetables and fruits,” said APMC administrator and secretary Anil Chavan.
* Covid+ve man jumps off hosp, fractures leg
A 45-year-old Covid-positive man allegedly jumped from the third floor of a hospital building in Nalasopara on Saturday. He landed on a heap of sand lying below and has fractured a leg .
The patient, who was “recovering well”, shattered a windowpane of the room he had been allotted and leaped out even as a ward boy noticed him and struggled to pull him in. The man, however, managed to fend off the attempt to save him, a hospital official said, adding that they are unsure why he jumped off.
* Refused room, 3 cause minor blast at hotel
Three youths who hurled a petrol bomb inside a hotel in Dongri on Friday are wnated by the police. The trio — Azim Bhau, Moin Batla and Zeera — went to Hotel Indore Lodging & Boarding wanted to check in, but were refused as they are locals.
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