People shifted from Koliwada in Mumbai to quarantine

▴ People shifted from Koliwada
Coronavirus spread in Mumbai continues

On Wednesday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) 86 people are quarantined from Worli Koliwada locality in Mumbai. They are shifted to the facility as a precautionary measure, an official reveal. The civic body has identified the Koliwada are as one of the containment zones in the city and completely cordoned off the area to curb the spread of COVID-19, after over 10 persons have been tested positive, with one of them about to die due to the infection. Like Koliwada, the BMC has identified as many as 145 such vulnerable zones in the city, where either one or more COVID-19 cases were detected or suspected patients lived.

Meanwhile, a patient from Dharavi, who had been under the bout of the novel coronavirus, died on Wednesday evening, and the civic authorities sealed the building he lived. He was 56. Dharavi is the densely populated area is famous for being the largest slum in Asia. Certainly, the building, under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme, where the man lived doesn’t have any history of foreign travel. After the person died in a public-run hospital in Sion, some 300 tenements and 300 shops were sealed by police and the residents are kept under home-quarantine. Activating this order, subjected the police of stone-pelting as they tried to disperse the crowd gathered learning about the death of the person in Coronavirus. None are hurt in stone-pelting. However, the police registered a case against an unidentified person.

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