In Pictures: Mumbai meets COVID -19 challenge with determination

Mumbai tackles COVID-19 challenge with rapid testing and steely determination

Published: May 18, 2020 15:25 Nilanjana Javed, Digital Content Editor

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Medical worker arrive for the COVID-19 testing at the containment zone at Dharavi. Image Credit: ANI

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Health workers entering the Dharavi slum to conduct contact tracing and quarantining people who came into contact with a coronavirus patient in Mumbai. This city of 20 million is now responsible for 20 percent of India's coronavirus infections and nearly 25 percent of the deaths. Image Credit: The New York Times

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Health workers mark a resident for quarantine after she came into contact with a coronavirus patient in the Dharavi Mumbai. Image Credit: New York Times

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Quarantine facility being prepared for Covid-19 patients at Catholic Gymkhana in Mumbai due to the increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients. Image Credit: ANI

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Beds sit as the finishing touches are applied to a ward at a dedicated Covid Heath Centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex exhibition ground in Mumbai. India's government has extended its nationwide lockdown until May 31, while further easing restrictions in certain sectors to boost economic activity as coronavirus cases escalate across the country. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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A vendor selling tomatoes waits for customers at APMC market after it opened with added precautionary measures against COVID-19, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Navi Mumbai on Monday. Image Credit: PTI

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Migrants workers break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan waiting in a queue for special trains leaving for Baghalpur in Bihar from Borivali railway station during the government-imposed nationwide lockdown. Image Credit: ANI

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Medics conduct thermal screening of passengers who arrived from Delhi at Mumbai central station following the resumption of passenger trains services by Indian railways connecting major cities during the ongoing COVID -19 lockdown. Image Credit: PTI

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Mumbai police check at a check post in Bandra. 84 police officers and 749 constables have tested COVID-19 so far. Image Credit:

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Workers preparing 200-beds isolation facility at Mahalaxmi Racecourse in Mumbai. Image Credit: ANI

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A brother and sister push a handcart carrying his parents on it along Mira Bhayandar western express highway during the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19, in Mumbai. Image Credit: ANI

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