mumbai amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown we bring you the latest updates from mumbaiupdate at 1105pm uber in association with the amar gandhi foundation has launched the uber essentials in mumbai and thane for patients to reach hospital sources said that that either the pickup or the destination needs to be a hospital and two persons apart from driver can travel in one cabupdate at 1025pm animal lovers in the city are a bit relieved after mumbai police informed the citizens that they can feed the animals and birds on the streets between 530am and 730am daily during the ongoing lockdownupdate at 942pm bmc releases a helpline number where you can talk to a team of mental health experts and put all your coronavirusrelated worries to rest the number is 1800120820050update at 855pm mumbai records singleday largest jump in deaths with 16 covid19 casualties and 152 new cases on sundayupdate at 820pm seven members of a charitable trust were arrested for allegedly violating the social distancing norms by distributing essential commodities to hundreds of people at one place in suburban oshiwara in mumbai police said on sunday ptiupdate at 745pm mumbai police has turns a police van into a mobile sanitisation chamberupdate at 652pmthree arrested in mumbai for playing cricket during lockdownupdate at 620pm fire department officials used protector 600 an advanced level ariel mist blowing machine in mumbais dharavi slum area on sunday to disinfect the locality in a bid to curb the rising covid19 cases aniupdate at 532pm former maharashtra cm devendra fadnavis on sunday asked the uddhav thackerayled state government to borrow money from the cashrich mumbai civic body and mmrda to buy the equipment required in the fight against coronavirus money should not be an excuse for delay in procurement of such items he said speaking to a marathi news channel ptiupdate at 445pm a 62yearold man from bhiwandi town in the district who had come in contact with some attendees of delhis tablighi jamaat event tested coronavirus positive on sunday an official said ptiupdate at 4pm among the new cases reported in maharashtra today 113 have been reported from mumbai city and seven from mira bhayandar civic area in neighbouring thane district ptiupdate at 3pm due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown pet owners in mumbai on sunday said they are experiencing a shortage of pet food and requested the maharashtra government to allow suppliesupdate at 232pm with fourfifth of the economy shuttered for the third week on account of covid19 control measures pulling down power demand sharply power utilities in the state are turning to energy exchanges to buy cheaper power to protect margins eschewing ppas that command much higher tariffsupdate at 136pm two more deaths reported in pune today both of them had tested positive for covid19 and also had comorbidityupdate at 1247pm 134 new coronavirus cases have been reported in maharashtra todayupdate at 1144am a total of 43 cases and 4 deaths