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NRAI and Mid-day are pleased to collaborate to bring you this morning’s edition of Mid- To day,receive page for page,mid-day in a breezy, daily clean digitalon WhatsApp format right Send a ‘Hi’ on our o to cial your WhatsApp inbox. No. 88722 22250. For breaking news through the day, you can log on to www.mid-day.com April 19, 2020, Sunday, 40 pages, R8, Mumbai | Phone : 6831 4800 | Fax : 2642 6812 ‘Politically useful for leaders ‘Corona aa to scapegoat outsiders’ gayi,’ they Don’t externalise threat, recuse responsibility: Author. P14 said From wearing burqas and dodging racial slurs to seeing 13 new cases savings wither, in M West, city’s North East 17 in Dharavi residents Mumbai has 183 new cases, are living state has 328; 34 recovered in hell. and discharged across Mah P07 on Saturday. P02 Desi maker CANCER, KIDNEY FAILURE PATIENTS ARE community COLLATERAL VICTIMS OF COVID-19 WAR WFH to help India Innovator labs and designers across the country are BUT WHAT ABOUT US? working with grand ideas, PIC/ASHISH RAJE meagre resources to help frontline staff. P15 We referred to international literature on laws for dialysis patients during a pandemic, and came up MAKER’S ASYLUM MUMBAI, with a set of guidelines Andheri-based innovators lab shares for BMC. COVID test open source model of M19 shields online isn’t practical for them ‘Anyone [designer] with a laser cutter was connecting with local hospitals, where the growing Dr Hemal dearth of PPEs was making We were given a list of labs Shah, Mumbai doctors and nurses jittery’ to test her for COVID-19. But Nephrology Group our priority was different. If my mother misses a single session, she could die Dipanwita Dutt, daughter to Chitra Dutt, 61, (right), an end stage chronic kidney disease patient, who missed PRITPAL SINGH, Bengaluru-based two dialysis sessions designer-artist is 3D printing face masks after Shushrusha ‘Rather than waste time chalking Hospital got sealed out new designs, I decided to delve on April 10 into the repository of designs available online to quickly produce a mask that was reusable’ Who cares for dialysis patients when centres are sealed. What when cancer 1.4L survivors can’t go home post-treatment in a lockdown. What if you need an Number of M19 shields Maker’s Asylum Mumbai and partner labs urgent rabies shot but the casualty is caring for fever patients. have distributed until Apr 18 PRUTHA BHOSLE AND P VATSALYA ON P21 TO 23 sunday mid-day 02 19.04.2020 CITY twitter.com/sundaymidday | facebook.com/middayindia | instagram.com/sundaymidday Dharavi uncontainable, as 17 new COVID-19 cases emerge City reports 183 cases, five deaths on Saturday; Kalyanwadi sees 10 cases; BMC’s M West ward, which includes Wadala, is seeing sudden rise in numbers in Dharavi on Saturday, civic assistant municipal commis- la, who was consulting at the quarantine facility. The med- 183 cases and five deaths were officials said. sioner of the G North ward. COVID-19 treatment facilities ical officers and police have from Mumbai. COVID-19 As per the data, 86 of the 117 Meanwhile, the M West ward of two private hospitals. He was marked the building as a con- The total number of COV- who were tested positive are of the BMC is also witnessing tested positive the third time, tainment zone. ID-19 deaths in the state is TICKER from high-risk zones, which a rise in cases. On Saturday, as his earlier two tests were Confirming this, Prithviraj now at 211. There was, howev- include Madina Nagar, Muku- the ward saw 13 new positive negative. His immediate fam- Chavan, assistant municipal er, a discrepancy in the last two nd Nagar, Social Nagar, Mus- cases, said civic officials. One ily members have been home commissioner of M West ward, tallies. The number of deaths 3,648 lim Nagar, Kalyanwadi, Baliga of the cases reported was of a quarantined, but his wife has said, “We have contained the in the state on Friday was 201, Nagar and Vaibhav apartments. doctor from Bhakti Park, Wada- willingly moved to the BMC’s building and also sanitised and with the 11 new deaths, the NO. OF CASES IN MAHARASHTRA All these areas are currently the premises. The chairman tally on Saturday should have sealed. Kalyanwadi alone saw and the secretary of the soci- been 212. When asked about CHETNA SADADEKAR 10 cases on Saturday—the ety have been counselled to this, a state official said, “A [email protected] youngest being a 15-year-old We have contained the building [in Wadala] and also ensure that home quarantine death reported on April 11 has boy and the oldest, a 61-year- sanitised the premises. The chairman and the secretary of is followed by the members.” been found to be COVID-19 THE number of people infected old man. The person who died the society have been counselled to ensure that home Meanwhile, 328 new COV- negative, as informed by the with COVID-19 in Dharavi rose was an 80-year-old woman ID-19 cases and 11 deaths were BMC. Therefore, it has been to 117, after 17 new cases, includ - from Sanaullah Compound, quarantine is followed by the members reported in the state, taking eliminated from the total death ing one death, were registered confirmed Kiran Dighavkar, Prithviraj Chavan, BMC oicial the tally to 3,648. Of these, count record.” 31 nurses, 5 doctors test positive at Jaslok Hospital All of them, says the hospital spokesperson, had tested negative earlier this month; they remain asymptomatic and have been kept in quarantine VINOD KUMAR MENON The hospital’s nursing staff [email protected] said that they still hadn’t re - ceived copies of their reports. Migrant workers use a public toilet as a cupboard at the Civil Defence of LATEST reports show that 31 “This has irked some of the Maharashtra Maidan in Andheri West on Saturday. PIC/SATEJ SHINDE nurses and five doctors from nursing staff, as they have been Peddar Road’s Jaslok Hospital getting frantic calls from their have tested positive for COV- families, as majority of the staff Construction workers ID-19. These nurses had been nurses are from Kerala. kept in quarantine at the hospi- Some staff are former stu- tal’s Ballard Pier hostel. Though dents of the Jaslok College of R the nurses have tested positive, Nursing, and say they have to get 2,000 each they are all asymptomatic. How- not been shown their reports,” ever, their health is being moni- said a staffer, adding, “On Fri- Twelve lakh construction workers are going to tored. The five doctors include a day, we were given a computer- receive a cash deposit, via direct money transfer registrar of medicine, a registrar ised list of names of staff [who of pulmonology, senior anaes- had tested positive]. No reports DHARMENDRA JORE The welfare fund is accumu - thetist, a junior anaesthetist and were handed over. Those who [email protected] lated via the collection of cess a junior radiologist. People crowd at a grocery shop at Pipe Road in Kurla West to pick up tested positive were advised to from public and private con - Hospital sources told mid-day provisions on Saturday. PIC/SAYYED SAMEER ABEDI continue staying in the hostel, THE workers who are regis - struction activities in the state. that when a positive case was re - with an extended stay of the tered with the Maharashtra According to the information ported in the hospital earlier this with a handful of nursing staff, quarantine period,” another Building and Other Construc- available on the board’s web - month, over 100 of the nursing who had to thus, put in long staffer added. tion Workers’ Welfare Board site, it had R8,207 crore in fund staff were kept in quarantine working hours. Because the Due to shortage of “Also due to shortage of staff, will be given a direct cash ben - deposits till September 2019. It at the hostel. Most of the staff management planned to call staff, some nurses who had some nurses who had tested efit of R2,000 each. Although has spent R722 crore on vari - had tested negative and so the remaining staff back to work negative and were asympto- the amount is meagre, it is ous schemes so far. The fund were on compulsory 14 days of from Monday [April 20], they had tested negative and were matic, were called for duty expected to provide increased from 2010, quarantine. to undergo a mandatory second asymptomatic, were called after completing only eight the workers with after the government “The hospital was working test.