The death of a 65-year-old Malwani resident, who died of COVID-19 on March 31 in Mumbai, has triggered panic on April 1 among dozens of medical staff of Shatabdi hospital and a private hospital as all those who came in contact with the elderly man have been recommended for home quarantine to contain the further spread of the deadly virus.

These 40 medical staff members will be kept under isolation in a ward at ESIS hospital, said the source, who added, "The number of medical staff may go up as the list is being prepared for them to be quarantined."