 "Police officials stand in a queue to get sanitised after dispersing hundreds of stranded migrant workers from outside the Bandra Railway Station in Mumbai. Photo: PTI")
Mumbai is India's worst hit city - of the 552 new cases in Maharashtra on Sunday, the city alone accounted for 456 cases, the highest ever single day spike. So how is the city gearing up for fighting this crisis?
Mumbai is roughly testing 1,200-1,400 samples per day in a city of around 12 million. Shortage of both diagnostic and protective kits is a huge challenge in the city. A batch of antibody-based rapid diagnostic test kits were to reach the state around April 10, but has been delayed. This has forced the BMC to restrict its testing net to
