Mumbai lockdown news: Today's updates

The Maharashtra government announced extension of the general lockdown until July 31 with an aim to contain the Covid-19 surge. The notification issued by the state government has also restricted inter-district travel between municipal corporations within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) to that for office purposes and essential activities like medical reasons.
*The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) crossed 2 lakh Covid-19 cases on Monday, setting another grim milestone for the state that now has an overall caseload of 3,18,695. While Mumbai accounted for a little over one lakh cases, the other one lakh has come from Thane, Navi Mumbai, Palghar and Raigad that continue to add to the case tally in significant numbers.
*Civic commissioner I S Chahal on Monday warned laboratories and hospitals sharing Covid-19 positive test reports with patients before informing BMC that it created problems with bed management at hospitals and that their licences could be suspended.
*A 60-year-old Thane doctor succumbed to Covid on Monday despite undergoing plasma therapy and a 10-day course of tocilizumab and remdesivir.
*Faced with the prospect of running with empty beds, many smaller private hospitals and nursing homes that had been converted into Covid centres at the peak of the pandemic, have questioned BMC’s diktat to fill up jumbo facilities first before referring patients elsewhere.