Mumbai lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Mumbai.
Update at 2.34pm: The civic body in Bhiwandi-Nizampur town in Maharashtra's Thane district on Tuesday warned powerloom units in the area not to resume operations till further orders were issued during the fourth phase of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Update at 2.27pm: Fresh applications for JEE-Mains can be submitted from May 19-24, reports PTI quoting HRD ministry
Update at 1.52pm: Migrants workers from Bihar put their luggage in a line at Kharghar while waiting for police to take them to railway station

Update at 1.10pm: Migrants waiting for MSRTC buses, to Madhya Pradesh border, outside Cadbury Junction in Thane

Update at 12.15pm: Ministry of home affairs issues revised SOP on the movement of stranded workers by trains
Update at 11.24am: Operate more special trains for migrant workers by pro-active coordination with Ministry of Railways, MHA tells states
Update at 11.17am: Lack of clarity about running of trains, buses coupled with rumours is causing unrest amongst migrant workers, MHA tells states
Update at 9.25am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,163; cases climb to 1,01,139, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
* 80% of pvt hosp beds to be reserved for Covid, emergency patients: BMC
With the BMC planning to take over the ICU beds and 80% of the general beds in major private hospitals, a meeting was held between civic officials and hospital managements on Monday to discuss details of bed allocation for both Covid and non-Covid patients. Hospital charges were not discussed as the state government is likely to issue an order in this regard on Tuesday, said representatives of the Association of Hospitals.
According to the arrangement, hospitals will manage the day-to-day operations, but will admit patients for the 80% reserved beds only on BMC’s directions.
BMC officials said these beds would be used for treatment of Covid patients as well as other emergency cases. For Covid patients, the BMC will pay the hospital bed charges as per the rates fixed by the state government.
* Hospitals tank up on oxygen, need it more than ventilators
Two months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the focus among hospital administrators is shifting from expensive ventilators to oxygen supply as it appears that roughly 10% patients need oxygen while about 3-5% turn critical and have to be put on ventilators.
Hospitals are now boosting their oxygen capacity. The civic body has sanctioned an oxygen generation plant at the Bal Thackeray Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari for its centralised oxygen support system. On Monday evening, around 100 of the 192 patients under treatment at the hospital were on piped oxygen support.
* Covid facility with 1,000 beds set up at BKC
A medical facility with 1,008 beds meant for semi-critical Covid patients was handed over by the MMRDA to the BMC in presence of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday. Half of the beds (504) will have oxygen facility. The project at Bandra-Kurla Complex was completed in record time after MMRDA received directions to set up the centre on April 28.
Medical equipment to be used here was purchased for Rs 5 crore and it will later be donated to the state.
* Locals should step up, make Maha ‘atma-nirbhar’: CM
The Centre has allowed states to make their own decisions on relaxations but they cannot dilute the Centre’s guidelines.
Thackeray said nearly 50,000 industries were currently operational in the state with a five lakh workforce, but the state was gearing up to invite more industries to open up. Using the ‘sons of the soil’ card, he asked locals to step up and contribute towards rebuilding the state. “There are many who have gone back to their hometowns. I appeal to the locals to turn this into an opportunity and contribute towards rebuilding the state. To use Modiji’s term, let’s make Maharashtra Atma-Nirbhar,” the CM said.
* On a day hundreds of vehicles came out on Mumbai’s roads as many felt relaxations announced by the Centre for Lockdown 4.0 were applicable to the city, CM Uddhav Thackeray said it was still not possible to allow relaxations in red zones, and Mumbai police commissioner Parambir Singh issued a reminder that the city was still a red zone and vehicles travelling without any emergency would be impounded.