Unlock 3.0 in Mumbai: Coronavirus cases update and latest news from your city

As part of Unlock 3.0, the state government has allowed opening of malls, shopping complexes and market places in non-containment zones from August 5. However, due to high number of Covid cases in Kalyan-Dombivli, Thane and Mira-Bhayander, their municipal bodies have decided to keep the shutters down. Stay with us for latest updates.
* Update at 9.46am: India's Covid-19 tally rises to 18,03,696 including 5,79,357 active cases, 1,186,203 cured/discharged/migrated & 38,135 deaths, reports ANI quoting health ministry
*Rs 600 crore spent on Covid, BMC got Rs 84 crore from Maharashtra
*A day after recording the highest deaths in a single day (322), the state recorded a dip in mortalities on Sunday. It added 260 Covid deaths, taking the overall toll to 15,576.
*Four months after BMC’s orders for requisitioning rooms in private buildings, lodges and hotels in Mumbai for setting up Covid care centres (CCCs), the civic body has returned almost 70% of them.
*Of Mumbai's Covid-19 deaths, 65% were in men even though they accounted for 62% of cases while women accounted for 35% of the deaths despite contributing to 38% of cases.
*In an analysis of 6,297 Covid deaths in Mumbai, men were found to have a higher case fatality rate (CFR) of 6.1% than women’s 5.3%. Mumbai’s overall CFR—the percentage of coronavirus deaths to number of patients who have tested positive—is 5.8%, still much higher than the state and country averages.
*After 21 days in hospital, superstar Amitabh Bachchan beat Covid-19 and returned home on Sunday. His actor son Abhishek (44), who was admitted to Nanavati Hospital in Vile Parle on the same day as his father on July 11, continues to be hospitalized due to comorbidities.