New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has drafted an complete containment plan for Jhuggi-Jhopdi clusters/slums in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Mumbai's Dharavi slum has emerged as one of the hotspot for the transmission of coronavirus.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 8 (ANI): Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said that the state still does not have community transmission and densely populated areas should strictly observe the lockdown.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 8 (ANI): The total number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai's Dharavi increased to nine on Wednesday after two more men tested positive at Mukund slum and Dhanwada Chawl.
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], April 7 (ANI): Amid the nationwide lockdown, Dirba Police in Sangrur district on Tuesday arrested eight people for transporting liquor from Dirba to Dharamgarh.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): The Mumbai Police have confirmed that 10 people, who lived in Dharavi for a few days after returning from Delhi's Nizamuddin area, have been identified and traced.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): An FIR has been registered against 150 people, associated with Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat, here at Azad Maidan police station for violating quarantine and official preventive orders, police said.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): 23 more COVID-19 cases were reported from Maharashtra on Tuesday, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the state to 891.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): Two persons, associated with the second COVID-19 case in Dharavi, have tested positive for the infection, taking the tally in the area to 7, including 1 death, the state health department said on Tuesday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 5 (ANI): One more person has tested positive for coronavirus in Dharavi, but the reports stating 14 new cases were from Dharavi are false, said sources in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 4 (ANI): Two more persons -- a man and a woman -- have been found positive for coronavirus in the densely populated Dharavi area here on Saturday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 4 (ANI): The Mumbai Police is investigating whether there is a connection between the first COVID-19 death in the Dharavi area here and the congregation at Tablighi Markaz in Delhi's Nizamuddin last month.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 3 (ANI): A total of 9,25,828 people have been surveyed under the cluster containment task in the wake of the surge in coronavirus cases, said Maharashtra Health Department on Friday.